ID Number: Q63267
1.00
MS-DOS
buglist1.00 fixlist1.10
Summary:
If the "menukey" switch in the DOS version of the Programmer's
Workbench (PWB) version 1.00 is set to anything other than ALT (which
is the default), it will be redefined to the ALT key after shelling
out to DOS. Thus, the menukey switch will lose its assignment any time
you choose Compile, Run Program, Debug Program, or DOS Shell.
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in PWB version 1.00. This
problem was corrected in PWB version 1.10.
More Information:
The menukey switch determines which keystroke activates the PWB main
menu bar. The ALT key is normally used for this, but menukey can be
redefined to any keystroke. For example, menukey is automatically
defined to F9 if you choose Brief Editor emulation when installing the
Programmer's WorkBench.
Whenever you invoke any function (such as Build) that goes out to DOS
for execution and then returns, the menukey switch is reset to ALT, so
that both ALT AND the user-defined keystroke invoke the menu.
To work around this problem, you can use the Restart command to invoke
a macro that redefines the menukey to the desired value each time you
return from a DOS SHELL command, which will then keep ALT from
activating the menu. For example, to cause F9 to always be reset as
the only menukey, put the following line in the PWB tagged section of
the TOOLS.INI file:
restart:= arg "menukey:F9" assign
Since the Restart command, if it exists in TOOLS.INI, is invoked
automatically when returning from a SHELL command, this method
guarantees that the key assignment will always remain consistent.