James

I've made a popup menu in the Windows standard style. Hot keys have been automatically created in each macro name on the menu, which is very cool except that one particular letter (G) which occurs in three macro names is the hot key for all three macros. This isn't necessary as there are enough other letters in the names to go around (only 13 macros on the menu anyway). Is there anything I can to do get unique hot keys for the ones that now all have "G" for the hot key?

Thanks.

Not sure if this is what you are wanting, but I've use numbers (ie 1-9) and other keyboard symbols (ie ^, @, *) as my hot keys. (ie &*General). The think you need to remember is to include a replace variable command (ie replace "&*" with "") and be sure to place it in the macro before your (replace "&" with "") command.

One think I was curious about was when you write "automatically created in each macro name". I've never run across this option but if it is dealing only with macros, as opposed to text stings, that would explain why.

I am trying to create a macro that will type out the current month end date in MMDDYY format. I found the posting on this site that had the example macro for this, but it will not work on mine for some reason. Don't know if I am doing it wrong, or what, I am such a beginner at this. Can someone please help me with this? I am just learning, so be gentle. I do not have PGM Function library. I have Macro Express 3.7.

 

Thanks so much for your help!

Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but the following generally works for me:

1. Go into Text Commands

2. Go into Date commands

3. Select the format you want and place it in a Variable

4. Enter a Text Type command where you want the date inserted and add the Variable from step 3 (ie <TEXTTYPE:<SPACE>(jr %T25%)>

Hope this helps

Have you tried replacing " :" with 0:? In other words, insert a space before the colon.

If you try your Mouse Commands and then Mouse Left Button, you should get the full range of options (including double click)

I, for one, would certainly be interested in something like this. However, I must confess that as a beginning user just finding out how to establish a 36 option menu would most likely be enough for me.

I was trying to use the & function in the Multiple Choice menu feature. However, when I use the Text Type %[variable #]% it adds the & to the front of the text string entered in the option.

Am I missing some setting somewhere, or do I need to use some command other than "Text Type"? Please forgive any faux pas as this is my first posting. TIA for any suggestions.