pressing enter doesnt continue!!

[jsaltzman]

pressing enter will not continue a script for me.

So i made a message box pop up and when enter is pressed, "OK" is clicked. Can i make the result of OK being clicked continue the script?

[RussBaker]

If you have used the Pause/resume step then you need to actually use the ENTER key or click on the CONTINUE button in the status area.

If you are paused because of a Enter Preview Mode[Pause] script step, then either the RETURN or ENTER will work.

ENTER is different from the RETURN Key. On many PC keyboard, RETURN (the normal carriage return key) is actualy labelled as ENTER. The true ENTER key is a different character set, and is actually the ENTER key found on the bottom fight of the numeric keypad.

If you are on a PC laptop, then you can normally use FUNCTION RETURN to get the true ENTER character. Mac laptops have a separate ENTER key to the right of the spacebar (at least, mine does).

If you want to use a message to pause a script, then use the Show Message step, like:

Show Message [Click on OK to continue][OK]

But, this will not allow you to enter data etc while its waiting for you to click OK (or RETURN)