Splash screen

[Lynn H. Wakefield]

Is there a way to get rid of the opening splash screen in PB3.5?
I am getting tired of hitting a key every time I open it
Thanks in advance
wakely

[Lance Edmonds]

NO official built-in way, sorry.

You could always try writing a TSR that sends a keypress to the IDE...

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[Woody Woodward]

It doesn't really take a TSR. Just place an escape character
in the keyboard buffer.

Here's your PB program to do it

REM ASCII-CODE FOR ESCAPE - ESCAPE.BAS
ASM MOV CX, 27
ASM MOV AX, &H0500
ASM INT &H16

Here's your bat file to invoke it

ESCAPE
PB %1 %2

That was so easy, I may start using it myself....



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[Lance Edmonds]

That is a good example of lateral thinking... I'm impressed!

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[Lynn H. Wakefield]

Hey Woody . . . . . ! !
That works !
Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees?
I don't know why I did'nt think of that - thanks.
I renamed pb.exe to pb-1.exe and use pb.bat to call pb-1.bat, and so that pb is in my path, I change my path.
Example:

@ECHO OFF
SET OLDPATH=%PATH%
PATH=C:\PB35;%PATH%
escape
c:\pb35\pb-.exe %1 %2
PATH=%OLDPATH%
SET OLDPATH=

Thanks again Woody and Lance for your responses!
wakely

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[Richard L Bianchi]

Lynn:
Can this technique be used to call dosedit and do a Control End?
could you or someone show me an example?
How do you enter a control character in a batch file?
Thanks - Rick

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[This message has been edited by Richard L Bianchi (edited April 22, 2002).]

[Lance Edmonds]

When sending extended keys, CL is set to 0, and CH is set to the scancode for the key.

The extended scan code for CTRL+END is 117, so CL = 0 and CH = 117.

However, in my test of EDIT.EXE, it does nothing mode than END (CH=79). According to the INT &H16 notes I have here, Int 16,5 "will not store attribute keys like Shift, Alt, Ctrl, etc..." which would probably explain the reason.

Still, if you want to experiment, here is the code:

$COMPILE EXE
!MOV CL,0
!MOV CH,117
!MOV AX, &H0500   ; Function 5 = Kbd buffer write
!INT &H16         ; Int &H16   = kbd I/O

BTW, for anyone lurking here, here are my INT &H16 notes for Function 5:

INT 16,5 - Keyboard Buffer Write (AT+)

AH = 05
CH = scan code #
CL = ASCII character

On return:
AL = 00 if success
01 if buffer full

- available on AT and PS/2 machines with extended keyboard support
- stores normal keystroke into keyboard buffer
- will not store attribute keys like Shift, Alt, Ctrl, etc...

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[Richard L Bianchi]

Thanks Lance, it was well worth the try - Rick

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