neal@druhi.ATT.COM (Neal D. McBurnett) (07/02/90)
There are many capabilities of the HP48 which seem to only be accessible via interactive keypresses. For example, the first column of a matrix can be deleted via the MatrixWriter by typing downarrow, NXT, -COL and ENTER. It is much more painful, slow and takes more memory to do this via a program (unfortunately, the "SUB" command does not work with matricies....) There are a number of other interactive commands which I would like to access from a program. Has anyone figured out how to do keyboard macros? It doesn't seem like it would be too hard to put some "key presses" into the keyboard buffer (assuming one exists). It might be harder to regain control afterwards from a program. Naturally, it would be best to have a fancy interface which would allow for arguments to the macros, loop and repeat constructs, etc.... Finally, is there any way to redefine the keys in special environments like MatrixWriter (another kind of USER mode)? Binding keyboard macros to keys in special environments would be great stuff! -Neal McBurnett // neal@druhi.ATT.COM // AT&T Bell Labs, Denver