FMP 10 and later on both platforms: there's no way to trigger a script
if the user presses one of the F-keys is there? I tried catching keys
that triggered, but got an empty result with the F-keys.

I'm looking for a way to launch a script when the user has finished
entering a variable and unpredictable amount of portal lines. Using the
tab key, the user can enter more and more portal lines. When he's done,
he needs to launch a process script.

I have a buttom there of course. Can't tab to it, though, as tabbing
creates more portal lines (which is intended).

Any ideas, apart from digging out the mouse? Any obvious commands I
could use (i.e. I can trigger)? I'm thinking about Alt-Cmd-B, as nobody
will get hurt if the user presses just Cmd-B by mistake.
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"Christoph Kaufmann" <clk (AT) tele2 (DOT) ch> wrote

A Script can be a given keyboard shortcut using the Command key (on the Mac)
and the number keys. In older versions of FileMaker Pro the first ten
Scripts in Scripts menu were automatically given the keyboard shortcuts
Command-1 through to Command-0, which means those shortcuts were not
interferring with any other options.

Helpful Harry )

"Christoph Kaufmann" <clk (AT) tele2 (DOT) ch> schreef in bericht
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Christopher,

With FMP advanced you can create custom menu's.
The function keys (F1 - F12) aren't captured with windows (couldn't try osx
at this point) possibly because many of them have system functions attached
(F1 = help, F2 = rename item, F3 = search)
But I was able to attach ctrl-shift-b and every other unused combination to
a script.
So that is the way to go: FMPa and create custom menu's

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Ursus

Ursus <ursus.kirk (AT) ziggo (DOT) nl> wrote:

Thanks to Harry and Ursus for the inputs - I haven't thought about
shortcuts in Custom menus. I'd have gone for script menu shortcuts
instead, but custom menus are not affected when new scripts are created.

I found a different approach meanwhile: while I can't predict the number
of portal lines the user is going to create, I can conclude from his
entries which is most probably the last portal line that should be made,
so I attached a script to the last field of the portal row that captures
the key codes 9, 10 and 13 (tab, enter, return) and cancels them after
the script has made an educated guess for the further navigation.

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