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The Power-QWK Hot Key Manager
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Within the Hot Key Manager you may specify up to 26 strings,
each of which represents a DOS command line.
The strings are labelled A, B, C, D, etc.
Almost anywhere within Power-QWK, pressing Alt/x where x is
a letter of the alphabet, will cause Power-QWK to shell to
DOS and execute Hot Key string x.
For instance, you could set up Hot Key string B as a call on
your Comms program to execute a script which calls your favourite
online service or bulletin board, uploads any existent reply
file and then downloads any new mail.
Having set up the string, you may press Alt/B anywhere within
Power-QWK to shell to DOS, execute a mail run and then return
to the same point within Power-QWK at which you pressed Alt/B.
For online service calls such as this, the obvious place to
press Alt/B is at the Power-QWK Main Menu. When you return from
your Comms program, Power-QWK will recognise that there is new
mail and position the highlight pointer beside the item 'Process
New Mail Packets'. Press Enter and away you go.
By default, Power-QWK will blank the screen before invoking your
Hot Key string but, if you know that the program you're calling
either doesn't write to the screen or, if it does, restores the
original screen on exit, then you may prefix the Hot Key string
with a ! (exclamation mark) character.
This causes Power-QWK not to blank the screen, thus enabling
seamless calls to other well-behaved programs.
Whilst within the Hot Key Manager, you may highlight any of the
26 strings by using the cursor and paging keys.
You may also use the following:
Return - edit the currently highlighted Hot Key string.
Esc - quit Hot Key Manager.
You may also press Alt/x within Hot Key Manager to exit, shell
to DOS and execute Hot Key string x.
However you choose to exit from Hot Key Manager, if you have
changed anything during your visit, you will be asked for
confirmation before the changes are written to disc.
Power-QWK's Hot Key strings are stored in a file named
POWERQWK.HOT. If you never set up any Hot Key strings then this
file will never be created.
Any one Hot Key string may be up to 127 characters in length,
although only fifty characters will be visible at any one time
in the Hot Key Manager window. When editing a long string, it
will automatically scroll leftwards when you enter data or
press Cursor Right at the right hand end of the visible string.
You may also reset Hot Key Manager's window colours. These
colours are also used by (and may also be set in) the Addressee
and Conference Pick Lists and Tagline Manager.
F5 - Highlight bar background
F6 - Highlight bar foreground
F7 - main text background
F8 - main text foreground