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Hi Yutaka

I need a feature to get the key an user has pressed.
I want to omit the usual InputBox() dialog.


Example script:

varK = GetKey();
alert('You have pressed ' + varK);



OR
- select a word
- execute macro
- macro is waiting for a key press

selText = document.selection.Text;
varK = "";
while(varK==""){
  varK = GetKey();
  wait 200ms;
}
document.selection.Text = varK + selText + varK



The point is: no dialog involved!



Or perhaps useful for

while(varK.length < 5){
varK = varK + GetKey();
}


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Ahh, just forgot:

while GetKey() is waiting,
the keypress should not be
processed to the document
but only to the macro.

That means:
if i have a selection
this should not get dropped
by the key press.
OTOH, i could catch the selection
from the macro too before waiting for the key!?!?

Hi Stefan,

An easy way is to utilize our Snippets plug-in. Can you try using the Snippets plug-in? Lots of information can be viewed at http://www.emeditor.com/help/howto/plugin/plugin_snippets.htm

Thanks!

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Yutaka Emura
Developer of EmEditor
http://www.emeditor.com/

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Hi Yutaka, i think you know that i already utilize the snippets a lot.

But i don't know how i can wait for a key press.

Basically i want to
- start a macro
- wait for the user pressing any key
- store that key to a variable
- continuing the macro

I have many ideas to use this.

If you happen to know how i can do this
right now, please tell me by an example.

If it is not possible right now,
please consider to implement something like "GetKeyPress();"

Thank you.

Hi Stefan,

It is not possible to wait for a particular key while running a macro. This is because macros do not run asynchronously. This is limitation of macros.

What I mean by using Snippets is using a Keyboard shortcut for each snippet.

Thanks!

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Yutaka Emura
Developer of EmEditor
http://www.emeditor.com/

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Ah, i see. To bad.

Thank you for the clarification.



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