Re: UltraMacros Manual?

["msean" <msean1941@gmail.com>]

Thanks Beverly. keyto sounds vagely familiar. I'll give it a try.

appleworks51@yahoo.com wrote:
> The latest manual for UltraMacros came with "Ultra 4.0," or UltraMacros
> 4.3 (same manual for both). When UltraMacros was merged into Appleworks
> 5, no manual was included for the UltraMacros part. You were expected
> to buy UltraMacros 4.3 to get a manual.  Even so, the manual was only a
> continuation of the original manual, which you have.
>
> The AppleWorks 5 disk contained a complicated default macro set and
> little in the  way of instructions, which all but shut out new and
> novice users of learning this programming gem.  The UltraMacros 4.3
> manual is very rare, and although I have no idea where in my house it
> is located at the moment, I wouldn't part with it for anything.
>
> I believe ifkey was replaced with keyto or k=key. With k=key,  you
> would go into a loop where you would read each key.  If k = 27 excape
> was pressed. If k = 13 Return was pressed.  The problem with keyto was
> that there was no escape (not sure?).  All that is kind of vague
> because I always used k=key and did not use ifkey or keyto.  I will try
> to find that manual or read some of my TEXAS II newsletters to see what
> happed to ifkey.
>
> The current version of the Ultra Compiler is  v4.4.
>
> Beverly Cadieux
> TEXAS II an International Newsletter for users of AppleWorks 5.1