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December 8, 2005
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Mapkey Question

  • December 8, 2005
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Mapkey Gurus,

I have a mapkey for storing that first purges and then saves. It has worked for many years of releases but now in WF2 (M090) it doesn't pick up the "OK" that would complete the save. In the past two semicolons together was the equivilant of "return". I've tried manually placing that at the end of the mapkey definition and it still doesn't work. I even created a mapkey that just recorded me picking the "OK" button on the save dialogue box and called it "test". After I start my save mapkey and it stops just shy of the "OK" then I type "test" and sure enough the "OK" button gets pressed and the save is complete. OK so now all I have to do is copy the working contents of the mapkey "test" onto the end of my "st" (store) mapkey. Still doesn't work. I must be missing something simple.

Here's the mapkey definition:

mapkey st ~ Select `main_dlg_cur` `MenuBar1`1 `File`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Close `main_dlg_cur` `MenuBar1`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Select `main_dlg_cur` `File.cb_file_delete`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Close `main_dlg_cur` `File.cb_file_delete`;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `main_dlg_cur` `psh_purge`;;\
mapkey(continued) ~ Activate `main_dlg_cur` `ProCmdModelSave.file` `OK`;

Thanks in advance for any help,

Gary Whalen

    4 replies

    1-Visitor
    July 23, 2007
    When assigning mapkeys, $F1 through $F12 represent the function keys F1
    through F12. But, does anyone know if and how you could assign mapkeys
    to the Page Up and Page Down keys? I thought it would be nice to assign
    them to page forward and backward through a drawing - the little up and
    down arrows on the page indicator box are too small a target to quickly
    hit with the cursor.

    Bill Schmid
    CAD Designer
    Rexair
    Cadillac, MI
    www.rainbowsystem.com
    1-Visitor
    July 25, 2007
    Well, it appears you can't assign mapkeys to the Page Up or Page Down
    keys. Lots of people sent me mapkeys to switch sheets, but no one knew
    how to assign them to the keys I wanted. I thought those keys would be
    most intuitive for my users. I guess I'll either stick with my PV
    (previous) and NX (next) or try the + and - keys, as some suggested.
    I'm thinking the + and - on my SpaceExplorer might work for this, too.

    And then there's the hope that the one person who knows how to do this
    and was holding out on me will read this summary and reply with the
    answer. Seems like sometimes a summary generates more responses than
    the original post.

    Thanks to all who replied. I've listed their responses below.

    Bill

    ORIGINAL QUESTION:
    1-Visitor
    July 25, 2007
    Bill:

    Just out of curiosity ... why would you need a mapkey when Pro Engineer
    has the following functionality (see attached)

    Jason
    1-Visitor
    July 25, 2007
    Bill

    I usually just type in the sheet number in the box, It's a bigger
    target!



    Steven Fowler
    Senior Tool Designer
    Manufacturing Engineering