Re: UltraMacros Manual?

[appleworks51@yahoo.com]

I found the UltraMacros 4 manual and here is what it says about ifkey
and other discontinued commands:
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Chapter 3
UltraMacros 4 Reference

This reference documents the commands built-in to UltraMacros 4. It
assumes that you have some familiarity with UltraMacros 3.x commands.
See page 48 of the TimeOut UltraMacros 3.x manual for an introduction
to macro syntax, tokens, local vs global macros, etc.

Discarded Commands

UltraMacros 4 discarded or replaced several UltraMacros 3x commands in
order to make room for new features. See the file Changes in UM to see
how to simulate the functions of the old commands. Here are commands
discarded or changed so that they won't compile:

Replaced:	els- .els, id#- .id, findpo- .findpo, menu- .makemenu
Dropped:	dec, elseoff, getvar, ifkey, inc, putvar, &
Changed:	call (page 42), clear (page 31)

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When you look for the file "Changes" on the UM4 disk, it isn't there.
But there is another file named "Key Test Macro" which tells you what
to do about ifkey. I'm not going to type it all in here (I no longer
have an Apple connected to my PC), but it has you use Peek $C000 to
substitute for ifkey.  (That's peek $C zero zero zero).

x = Peek $C000      // Get last keypress

if x = 27 Escape was pressed
if x= 13 Return was pressed
if x > 128 OA key is down, etc.

Use x=peek c000 when you need to know what key was already presssed.

Use k=key when you want to wait for a key, then see what it was.

I hope this helps.

Beverly Cadieux
TEXAS II an International Newsletter for users of AppleWorks(R) 5.1