Re: Pressing the Q key
By: Finglonger to Digital Man on Tue Feb 18 2025 09:07 am
> Re: Pressing the Q key
> By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon Feb 17 2025 03:49 pm
>
> > Re: Pressing the Q key
> > By: Nightfox to Digital man on Mon Feb 17 2025 03:16 pm
>
> > > Hi DM,
>
> > > I seem to remember reading somewhere (or discussing it on IRC?) that
> > > when
> > > > > user presses Q at a prompt, Synchronet interprets Q in a certain
> > > > > way
> > > - is > > that correct?
>
> > > A user brought up an issue while using DDMsgReader, which I'm able to
> > > reproduce - After responding to a personal email and saving it,
> > > Synchrone
> > > > > says "E-mail sent to <user>.", then pauses for a key, showing
> > > > > "[Hit
> > > a key > > and if they press Q at that point, I'm returned to
> > > DDMsgReader showing th > > original message (as expected), but the
> > > header at the top of the screen
> > > doesn't get re-drawn. I'm going to investigate further, but I was just
> > > curious if Synchronet interprets a "Q" keypress a certain way (when
> > > press
> > > > > at a pause prompt or any other prompt)?
>
> > Yes, hitting 'Q' (or the equivalent for the current language) or Ctrl-C
> > whil
> > > at a pause prompt will set the console abort flag (e.g. console.aborted
> > > in
> > JDoes this apply to the '1' key also? I use that on my menus and notice
> > that itbehaves similar to 'Q' even when not specified. Is there a way to
> > override
> these global keys by any chance, or is that hard coded?
Nightfox was asking about the Pause ([Hit a key] prompt) - that should have no e
ffect on any of your menus.
The keys for 'Q'uit and 'N'o are set in the text.dat/text.ini files, so they're
configurable.
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