Im venturing into my first real foray into Baja outside of binding keys on my main menu...

so far so good, but I cant seem to find where to bind the enter key to a default action.

basically I want it to behave like a quit. hit enter and the program defaults to the end.

what Im working on is a one liner (actually Im butchering anothers previous work) and I want it to say "Want to add a quote?" Y[N] where N is the default key and it exits the program at that point.

thanks for any pointers

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Re: Enter key and quit
By: Night_Flyer to All on Sun Mar 18 2007 05:48:00

so far so good, but I cant seem to find where to bind the enter key to a default action.

basically I want it to behave like a quit. hit enter and the program default to the end.

what Im working on is a one liner (actually Im butchering anothers previous work) and I want it to say "Want to add a quote?" Y[N] where N is the defaul key and it exits the program at that point.

This isn't exactly the answer to your question but have a look at BAJA's useful "NO_YES" verb.
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Re: Enter key and quit
By: Night_Flyer to All on Sun Mar 18 2007 06:48 am

Im venturing into my first real foray into Baja outside of binding keys on m main menu...

so far so good, but I cant seem to find where to bind the enter key to a default action.

basically I want it to behave like a quit. hit enter and the program default to the end.

Enter in response to what? GETSTR or GETKEY or GETCMD?

GETSTR will return a blank (empty) string in response to the user just hitting the enter key, where as GETKEY/CMD will set the current command key to '\r'.

See http://synchro.net/docs/baja.html#CommandKeyConstants for more details.

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Re: Enter key and quit
By: Digital Man to Night_Flyer on Sun Mar 18 2007 11:03 am

Enter in response to what? GETSTR or GETKEY or GETCMD?

GETSTR will return a blank (empty) string in response to the user just hitti the enter key, where as GETKEY/CMD will set the current command key to '\r'.

See http://synchro.net/docs/baja.html#CommandKeyConstants for more details.

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"\r" means return key right?

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Enter in response to what? GETSTR or GETKEY or GETCMD?

the current code is for a GETCMD
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getcmd YN\r?
logkey

cmdkey N
goto theend
end_cmd

cmdkey Y
goto write
end_cmd
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hitting the return key sends me to "Y"

all I want it to do is behave the same as "N"

GETSTR will return a blank (empty) string in response to the user just hitting the enter key, where as GETKEY/CMD will set the current command key to '\r'.

so how do you set the current command key? The Yes_no works fine, but Yes is highlighted :/

See http://synchro.net/docs/baja.html#CommandKeyConstants for more details.

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Enter in response to what? GETSTR or GETKEY or GETCMD?

here's what I did to get it to work, but I have a feeling that it was a hack job

getcmd NY\r?
logkey

cmdkey N
goto theend
end_cmd

cmdkey Y
goto write
end_cmd

compare_str ""
if_true
goto theend
end_if

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Re: Re: Enter key and quit
By: Night_Flyer to Digital Man on Sun Mar 18 2007 01:05 pm

Enter in response to what? GETSTR or GETKEY or GETCMD?

the current code is for a GETCMD
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getcmd YN\r?
logkey

cmdkey N
goto theend
end_cmd

cmdkey Y
goto write
end_cmd

From baja.html:

If a RETURN or GOTO function will be
executed before the END_CMD function, then a CMD_POP function must be executed to tell the interpreter to "forget" the previous CMD_HOME function.

So looks like you're missing some CMD_POP calls in there.

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hitting the return key sends me to "Y"

Interesting. I don't see why it would.

all I want it to do is behave the same as "N"

So create a cmdkey \r block.

GETSTR will return a blank (empty) string in response to the user just hitting the enter key, where as GETKEY/CMD will set the current command k to '\r'.

so how do you set the current command key?

UNGETKEY

The Yes_no works fine, but Yes is highlighted :/

So use the NO_YES function instead.

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Re: Re: Enter key and quit

By: Night_Flyer to Digital Man on Sun Mar 18 2007 01:05 pm

Enter in response to what? GETSTR or GETKEY or GETCMD?

the current code is for a GETCMD
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getcmd YN\r?
logkey

cmdkey N

goto theend

end_cmd

cmdkey Y

goto write

end_cmd

From baja.html:

If a RETURN or GOTO function will be
executed before the END_CMD function, then a CMD_POP function must be executed to tell the interpreter to "forget" the previous CMD_HOME function.

So looks like you're missing some CMD_POP calls in there.

all the examples I looked at didnt have that in there (that I noticed any way) the "cmdkey \r" call worked so ill leave that in... Thanks.

dont know how much more of this I want to play with considering its mosly doing what I want.

Since this is for a one liner wall, is there a way to get the length of the _useron.alias?

and with that info cut off the number of characters available in the get line?

X = 50
getline line1 X K_UPPER|K_ALPHA|NOCRLF

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Re: Re: Enter key and quit
By: Night_Flyer to Digital Man on Mon Mar 19 2007 04:36 pm

From baja.html:

If a RETURN or GOTO function will be
executed before the END_CMD function, then a CMD_POP function must be executed to tell the interpreter to "forget" the previous CMD_HOME function.

So looks like you're missing some CMD_POP calls in there.

all the examples I looked at didnt have that in there (that I noticed any wa

If you're not using CMD_HOME, then you don't need it.

the "cmdkey \r" call worked so ill leave that in... Thanks.

dont know how much more of this I want to play with considering its mosly doing what I want.

Since this is for a one liner wall, is there a way to get the length of the _useron.alias?

Use STRLEN

and with that info cut off the number of characters available in the get lin

X = 50
getline line1 X K_UPPER|K_ALPHA|NOCRLF

If you want to know the *maximum* length of _useron.alias, use the LEN_ALIAS constant (defined in userdefs.inc).

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Use STRLEN

when I compile I get an error stating that _useron.alias is an INT?!?

heres what Im trying to do

80 characters - overhead (7 characters) - username length = input box size

the above should be simple... but for some reason it isnt...

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Re: Re: Enter key and quit
By: Night_Flyer to Digital Man on Mon Mar 19 2007 07:00 pm

Use STRLEN

when I compile I get an error stating that _useron.alias is an INT?!?

heres what Im trying to do

80 characters - overhead (7 characters) - username length = input box size

the above should be simple... but for some reason it isnt...

Past the code you're trying to compile and the error message.

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Re: Re: Enter key and quit

By: Night_Flyer to Digital Man on Mon Mar 19 2007 07:00 pm

Use STRLEN

when I compile I get an error stating that _useron.alias is an INT?!?

heres what Im trying to do

80 characters - overhead (7 characters) - username length = input box size

the above should be simple... but for some reason it isnt...

Past the code you're trying to compile and the error message.

I played with it a bit more and got it to work, not sure what I was doing wrong, but now it does the equasion I was trying to accomplish, so users message + users name wont go over 80 characters together

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Night_Flyer said it to Digital Man on Mon Mar 19 2007 04:36 pm --──────────────────────-────---───────────────---─────────--────────

and with that info cut off the number of characters available in the get lin

X = 50 getline line1 X K_UPPER|K_ALPHA|NOCRLF

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