Highlighting with numbers keyboard shortcut

Member Posts: 81 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

I use a PC with a numerical keypad and have organised keyboard shortcuts for rapid highlighting using numbers. It is very convenient to select text and, by merely typing a number from 1 to 0, to have the selected text highlighted for a sequence. This works beautifully when using the numbers across the top of the keyboard but will not work using the numbers on the keypad that is integrated into the laptop keyboard.

Has anyone any comments? It's not a 'train smash'—just a little frustrating when it doesn't do what you expect!

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  • Member Posts: 10,980 ✭✭✭

    his works beautifully when using the numbers across the top of the keyboard but will not work using the numbers on the keypad that is integrated into the laptop keyboard.

    How very odd.  It seems unlikely that the keys would submit a different keycode.  The only guess I might stab at is the presence of a numlock.

    Many computers, even laptops have a numlock key that turns on or off the primary functions of a numeric keypad / or activates secondary functions like Home, PGUP, etc.  

    Check the numlock status.

    Hmm Sarcasm is my love language. Obviously I love you. 

  • Member Posts: 81 ✭✭

    Thanks, TC. That was the first thing I checked and it has no bearing on the issue.

  • Member Posts: 10,980 ✭✭✭

    Well I had to start somewhere Paul.  :-)

    So I did a  bit of digging. Apparently the keyCode values for numeric keypad are different!  I had no idea. IMHO this is a minor bug that should be rectifiable.

    snagged this from Adobe

    Letter or number key

    Key code

    ASCII key code

    0

    48

    48

    1

    49

    49

    2

    50

    50

    3

    51

    51

    4

    52

    52

    5

    53

    53

    6

    54

    54

    7

    55

    55

    8

    56

    56

    9

    57

    57

    Keys on the numeric keypad

    The following table lists the keys on a numeric keypad, with the corresponding key code values that are used to identify the keys in ActionScript:

    Numeric keypad key

    Key code

    ASCII key code

    Numpad 0

    96

    48

    Numpad 1

    97

    49

    Numpad 2

    98

    50

    Numpad 3

    99

    51

    Numpad 4

    100

    52

    Numpad 5

    101

    53

    Numpad 6

    102

    54

    Numpad 7

    103

    55

    Numpad 8

    104

    56

    Numpad 9

    105

    57

    Multiply

    106

    42

    Add

    107

    43

    Enter

    13

    13

    Subtract

    109

    45

    Decimal

    110

    46

    Divide

    111

    47

    Hmm Sarcasm is my love language. Obviously I love you. 

  • Member Posts: 81 ✭✭

    Thanks again, TC. Interesting—I suspected it must be something like that. Appreciate your input. It's not really of great import and I don't expect the powers that be will be interested in incorporating this in a future issue of the program. There are bigger issues they should be attending to. I must say, I love Logos and use it daily, in spite of the various issues.

  • Member Posts: 10,980 ✭✭✭

    I think you still may have time to change the title of this post to 

    BUG: Highlighting with numbers keyboard shortcut.  

    Doing this would make it easier for the programmers to spot.

    Click the green "More" button on your top post, that should give you an edit option and you can rename the post (I believe within 10 hours.)

    Hmm Sarcasm is my love language. Obviously I love you. 

  • Member Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭

    This works beautifully when using the numbers across the top of the keyboard but will not work using the numbers on the keypad that is integrated into the laptop keyboard.

    This should be fixed in 5.2b SR-3

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    Could you point me to where I can learn how to highlight using numbers? I have been looking for a different way to highlight text for a while now.

    Thank you.

  • Member Posts: 2,018 ✭✭✭

    Could you point me to where I can learn how to highlight using numbers? I have been looking for a different way to highlight text for a while now.

    Thank you.

    Hi Maria,

    I hope this helps: https://wiki.logos.com/Highlighting#Shortcut_keys 

    Instead of using a letter, try using a number.

  • Member Posts: 798 ✭✭

    This should be fixed in 5.2b SR-3

    And it is working in 5.2b SR-3, as suggested.

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