Up/Down Arrow Key prompts

[Scott Walker]

George,

I'm using filePro on Unix/Linux.  I tried:

Show "\r "&chr("17")&" \r"

And it displayed a highlighted question mark.

Maybe there's no easy way to do this, but it's something that's annoyed
me for years.  As important as the Up/Down arrow keys are in filePro
navigation, I sure would love to show them.

Thanks for the shot.

Regards,

Scott


Scott Walker
RAM Systems Corp.
ScottWalker at RAMSystemsCorp.com
Ph: (704) 896-6549
Fx: (704) 896-7458



-----Original Message-----
From: George [mailto:flowersoft at compuserve.com] 
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 9:42 PM
To: 'Scott Walker'; 'Fairlight'
Cc: 'Filepro_List'
Subject: RE: Up/Down Arrow Key prompts


Are you talking *nix filePro or Windows filePro?
In Windows filePro there is definitely a way of showing the up, down and
left and right arrow keys. ua="\r "&chr("17")&" \r"; da="\r
"&chr("18")&"\r "; la="\r "&chr("23")&chr("14")&"\r ";ra="\r
"&chr("14")&chr("24")&"\r ". An alternate to the right-arrow key is
ra="\r "&chr("20")&\r " but there is no equivalent for the left-arrow
key, so I rather use the
chr("23"),chr("24") and chr("14") combinations.

-----Original Message-----
From: filepro-list-bounces+flowersoft=compuserve.com at lists.celestial.com
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On Behalf Of Scott Walker
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 2:16 PM
To: 'Fairlight'
Cc: Filepro_List
Subject: RE: Up/Down Arrow Key prompts

 
Mark,

Thanks.  I didn't think so.  I'm not a believer in GUI but I always
thought a user more intuitively picks up on a prompt actually showing
the arrows, instead of text like "UpArrow", "DownArrow", etc.

Regards,

Scott


Scott Walker
RAM Systems Corp.
ScottWalker at RAMSystemsCorp.com
Ph: (704) 896-6549
Fx: (704) 896-7458



-----Original Message-----
From:
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[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+scottwalker=ramsystemscorp.com at lists.celest
ial.com] On Behalf Of Fairlight
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 2:04 PM
To: 'filepro list'
Subject: Re: Up/Down Arrow Key prompts


This public service announcement was brought to you by Scott Walker:
> Is there a way to show the up/down arrow keys as a symbol, ie an image

> of the arrow pointing up and an image of the arrow pointing down,
> instead of having to spell it out in text?

No.  They don't even exists in codepage 437.

mark->
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