Re: AW: Quick question on indicators - more philosophical than anything else

Hi Booth

Yes, it does. The AID byte holds a value of x'F1' if the Enter key is pressed.
You can also use the VLDCMDKEY(nn) keyword in the DDS to determine if the Enter key was pressed or not. In your program the indicator will be true if an available command key was pressed and false if not, so testing for NOT *INnn is the same as testing for Enter.

Of course, using named indicators would make that more readable...

Jonathan



Booth Martin wrote:

Does this tell us if the Enter key was pressed? (If it does, then this is the only way to know that the Enter key was pressed?)

BirgittaHauser wrote:

Hi,

To be honnest, I never used *INK-Indicators, nor did I use numbered
indicators for function keys.
Even 20 years ago we used position 369 in the file data structure and
checked the hex value of the function key pressed.
(The file data structure and hex values were included from a copy member).
In this way it was quite easy to work with function keys.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards

Birgitta Hauser

"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." (Les
Brown)
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." (Derek Bok)
"What is worse than training your staff and losing them? Not training them
and keeping them!"

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Is anyone still using the old indicator style of INKC, INKA, etc.?

Is there any reason why this should even be used today?
I know some are advocating using no indicators at all in a program....but is that not one of the strengths of RPG?

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