Highlighting with numbers keyboard shortcut
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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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.Paul Grieve said: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.
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.
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Thanks, TC. That was the first thing I checked and it has no bearing on the issue.
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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
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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.
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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.)
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Paul Grieve said:
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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Thanks, Angela. Much appreciated.
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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.
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Maria V.Garrido said:
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.
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Angela Murashov said:Paul Grieve said:
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
And it is working in 5.2b SR-3, as suggested.
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Thank you.
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