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  • November 15, 2010
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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 12 November 2010]

Hello All,
I was hoping to gain some insight as to whether or not I can map Alt-1 through Alt-0 using the Keystroke environment variable to an exception value. I have my code currently(see below) using Ctrl-1 through Ctrl-0 and it works fine, I believe i just need key code values for Alt-1 through Alt-0 for Windows.

SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=500 A1".
SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=501 A2".
SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=502 A3".
SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=503 A4".
SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=504 A5".
SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=505 A6".
SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=506 A7".
SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=507 A8".
SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=508 A9".
SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=509 A0".

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 12 November 2010]

    Hello All,
    I was hoping to gain some insight as to whether or not I can map Alt-1 through Alt-0 using the Keystroke environment variable to an exception value. I have my code currently(see below) using Ctrl-1 through Ctrl-0 and it works fine, I believe i just need key code values for Alt-1 through Alt-0 for Windows.

    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=500 A1".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=501 A2".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=502 A3".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=503 A4".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=504 A5".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=505 A6".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=506 A7".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=507 A8".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=508 A9".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=509 A0".

    Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
    i think this dosn't work.

    In the manual to redefine the keybord is this part:

    Alt key sequences (except as noted in the preceding table), PrtSrcn, and F10 are directly handled by 32-bit Windows and cannot be referenced in COBOL. You can free the F10 key to act as a user defined key by using a configuration variable. Setting the F10_IS_MENU variable to "0" inhibits the standard menu activation capability for the F10 key. See Appendix H for more details.
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 12 November 2010]

    Hello All,
    I was hoping to gain some insight as to whether or not I can map Alt-1 through Alt-0 using the Keystroke environment variable to an exception value. I have my code currently(see below) using Ctrl-1 through Ctrl-0 and it works fine, I believe i just need key code values for Alt-1 through Alt-0 for Windows.

    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=500 A1".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=501 A2".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=502 A3".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=503 A4".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=504 A5".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=505 A6".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=506 A7".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=507 A8".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=508 A9".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=509 A0".

    Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
    i think this dosn't work.

    In the manual to redefine the keybord is this part:

    Alt key sequences (except as noted in the preceding table), PrtSrcn, and F10 are directly handled by 32-bit Windows and cannot be referenced in COBOL. You can free the F10 key to act as a user defined key by using a configuration variable. Setting the F10_IS_MENU variable to "0" inhibits the standard menu activation capability for the F10 key. See Appendix H for more details.
    D

    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 12 November 2010]

    Hello All,
    I was hoping to gain some insight as to whether or not I can map Alt-1 through Alt-0 using the Keystroke environment variable to an exception value. I have my code currently(see below) using Ctrl-1 through Ctrl-0 and it works fine, I believe i just need key code values for Alt-1 through Alt-0 for Windows.

    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=500 A1".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=501 A2".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=502 A3".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=503 A4".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=504 A5".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=505 A6".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=506 A7".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=507 A8".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=508 A9".
    SET ENVIRONMENT "KEYSTROKE" TO "EXCEPTION=509 A0".

    Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
    when i think about it, the only idea atm is:

    place outside the visible area some buttons with Caption "&1 Button",.. "&2 Button",...
    then you get the respond from your programm like the button is pressed with Alt-1 and so on...

    But with this trick you have a new problem. The Focus from the current element is lost :(
    So you have to code a routine to save the last focus and reset it after alt-1 is pressed and so on. No propper solution i think :(

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