PC Access for Windows Reference Guide

for PC Access for Windows 4.30.158

Send Text

This column of fields lets you type in the text each button will send to the MLS when you click it with the mouse during an online session. PC Access has no way to check if you have typed in a valid MLS command. Therefore, you are responsible for reading your MLS documentation to learn valid MLS commands.

Follow these rules for sending special character sequences:

· To send a "control" character, type a caret (^) character followed by an uppercase letter. For example, if you want to send a ctrl-M character, type ^M.

¨ The ctrl-M character is equivalent to pressing the Enter key after you type a command to the host. Therefore, if a particular host command requires you to press the Enter key to finish the command, you'll need a ^M at the end of the button's Send Text field.

· If you want to send the caret itself, type these two characters together: ^~

· To send a function key, enter ^f followed by the function key number. For example, ^f1 sends the F1 key.

· Other special character sequences:
^home sends the Home key.
^end sends the End key.
^pgup sends the Page Up key.
^pgdn sends the Page Down key.

· To play a script file, enter ^s= followed by the script file name. For example, ^s=TEST.SCR plays the script file TEST.SCR.

· To open a Windows help file to a particular topic, enter ^h followed by parentheses containing the help file base name (do not include the .HLP extension). You may optionally include a comma and a help context ID number. (You may obtain this number from the help project file; in other words, this is an advanced command unlikely to be practical for most end-users of PC Access.) For example, ^h(PCAWRG,203) opens the PC Access help to topic 203, and ^h(PCAWRG) opens the PC Access help to the Contents topic.

Last modification date: Friday, January 17, 2003 00:58:55