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- easier to
- enter the weather records row by row and check the data column by
- column thus making typing errors easier to detect. Although entering
- the data from the numeric keypad was quick and easy, having to press
- both <enter> and <tab> which is on the other side of the keyboard made
- data entry clumsy (also it needed both hands and I had no spare finger
- to keep my place on the record sheet). What was needed was a single
- key press to enter the data in the slot and tab along to the next
- column. This was easily achieved by setting up a Key file to redefine
- the # key on the keypad to generate both enter and tab.
-
- This worked well and I kept a bespoke PD2 on a floppy with the data as
- I didn't want the # key re-programmed for normal PipeDream use. I
- continued to use PD2 to keep the weather records even after I had
- PipeDream 3, again because I didn't want to permanently have a key file
- redefining my # key. With the advent of PipeDream 4 with its Command
- files I thought now is the time to stop using PD2 and move to PD4 for
- all purposes. The command file to re-programme the # key in PD4 turned
- out to be the same as the Key file for PD2. When the command file is
- dragged into the open PD4 window the # key is re-programmed as
- expected, if you press the # key the caret moves down one row and
- across one column. If however, you enter a number into a slot and
- press the # key you just get a # after the number and the re-programmed
- key DOES NOT WORK. After much reading of the manuals I also tried
- simply re-programming the key to act as the <tab> key since in PD4
- simply pressing the <tab> key will enter a value into the current slot
- and move to the next. This gave the same result, OK when not editing a
- slot but failed to work after entering numbers in a slot.
-
- I then tried this problem on PD3 since I had never entered any weather
- data using this program before. It transpires that PD4 command files
- have the same filetype as PD3 macro files (you probably knew this
- already) and when the unaltered command/macro file was dragged into a
- PD3 window it re-programmed the # key as expected and continued to work
- when entering data into a spreadsheet slot as in PD2.
-
- The question is, is there a way of achieving my desire of entering data
- into a spreadsheet and moving to the next column with a single press of
- one of the keypad keys while using PipeDream 4, or must I go back to
- PD3. I enclose Januarys weather as an example and the command file
- WthrKey to illustrate my problem. Is this a real %H4%feature%H4% (bug) of
- PD4 or am I missing something?
-
- %R%Richard Darby 20.2.93
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