Popup Stuff

[michael Schelin]

Why does the PopUp Stuff Send The Letter D with this code POPUP STUFF chr$(&h44),0,0 This should be F10. I'm running MSdos 6.22 ? There is very little on the Popup Stuff command that I've ben able to find. I really need to stuff F3 but I have 3 programs that use F10. What a great way to test it. Can you Please Point me in the right direction. Thanks

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[Tom Hanlin]

That would be because CHR$(&H44) = "D", I expect. What you want to pass is the shift code and scan code. According to the appendix on keyboard scan codes, for F10, this should work:

POPUP STUFF CHR$(0, 68)

Note that the comma goes inside the CHR$ function.

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff

[michael Schelin]

68 dec is &h44. In the power basic help screen of scancodes. Am I putting the code in the wrong place? There are three spots and i've tryed to find thid information.

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[Lance Edmonds]

As Tom noted, you need to specify it as an extended key by adding a leading zero byte.

Please review the Reference Guide on the POPUP STUFF statement (page 214 & 215 of the printed edition).

Thanks!

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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[michael Schelin]

Thanks guys. I wasn't looking at the ref guide but was useing the example guide. So my Hex code is correct I just wasn't telling popup stuff to use the scan codes.
On another subject do I need to set memory for a popup timmer program that will do renaming using the shell command?

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[Michael Mattias]

I haven't done much MS-DOS work for a while, but I seem to recall the using SHELL in a POPUP can be problematic. You might want to use the NAME command instead of SHELL REN to rename files from a TSR.

MCM

[michael Schelin]

Would i be better off using the stuff buffer with the rename command and the correct syntax?

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[Michael Mattias]

Would i be better off using the stuff buffer with the rename command and the correct syntax?

To do what?

I have a complete public domain application using POPUP STUFF, somewhere here, anyway. Data file to modify, documentation, etc in a ZIP archive.

Drop me a note and I'll email it to you.