How to navigate trough records with the arrow keys

[Yorch]

Hi there...

When you are in "table" view in your database, you can navigate through your records with the PageDown and PageUp keys as well as with the Home and End ones.

Is there a way to establish the "arrow" keys to work as the "goto next record" and "goto previous record"??

Is there a status function that returns a number/value of each one of the keyboard keys??

Yorch

Using FMP 5.5

[Fitch]

... "arrow" keys ...

Possibly accomplished with a plug-in, or as a last resort, use a macro utility like Quickeys.

... status function ...

Status(CurrentModifierKeys) is all we've got.

It only looks at the shift, ctrl, cmd, option/alt, and caps lock keys.

[CobaltSky]

On both Mac and Win, the key combination cntl-down-arrow will take you to the next record and the key combination cntl-up-arrow will take you to the previous record.

I think that a status function that returned a number/value of each one of the keyboard keys might be regarded as redundant, since the keys themselves do exactly that - all except the modifier keys, of course, when pressed on their own (ie not in combination with a standard key) which is perhaps why there are status functions for those.

[Yorch]

Ray

Thanks for the tip on the ctrl-arrows combination, it is exactly what I was looking for!

As for the value/number of the standard keys, you are right, the key itself returns its unique value... what I realy meant is in combination with the modifier keys. If I press Ctrl+C within a field I will be copying its selected content, but what if I press Alt+C or... Ctrl+Alt+C or... Ctrl+Shift+C ?

or even Shift+F8 :

Yorch

[CobaltSky]

FileMaker provides an array of command triggers linked to modifier-key combinations, in addition to the standard ones such as cntl-c for copy. Notable examples being cntl-e for delete record, cntl-n for new record, cntl-s for sort and so on. There is no facility, however to trap for unused modifier-key combinations and assign alternative functions to them - at least not within FileMaker Pro itself.

You might, however, be interested to download a demo of the MenuControl plug-in from Dacons, which (among other things), enables you to assign up to several hundred modifier-key combinations to trigger scripts. If you'd like to take a look, you'll find their info page on the MenuControl plug-in at:

http://www.dacons.net/fmplugins/menucontrol/prodinfo/index.html

[Yorch]

Got it Ray, thanks !!

Yorch

[almondine]

This seems like a good option to know about. But it does point to the shortcoming that you can only use ten keyboard commands to trigger scripts using FileMaker normally.

FMP should really address this, I think, to provide more options - at least in the developer edition!

[Anatoli]

RE: FMP should really address this, I think, to provide more options - at least in the developer edition!

That is not practical at all.

You think that the run-time should have more functionality than FM Pro Client version?

Solutions created from Developer are not generating income for FMI. Client Sales yes.

[meancode]

WOW MenuControl is expensive! if you are on a mac, you might want to try doScript. it will execute any script on a keyboard command, such as the F Keys. it also lets you run scripts on exit of a field, wich is mainly what it is known for.

[CobaltSky]

Solutions created from Developer are not generating income for FMI.

...Well, not directly perhaps

[Anatoli]

IMHO -- solution can generate some additional FMI revenue, if someone likes it and it is going to multi-user client solution etc.

But if I will purchase Developer version and produce compilation for 1 or 1,000,000 clients it is the same for FMI.