Forums Feature Suggestions $key identifier

I'll prolly get flamed for this but meh.

$key identifier which returns either $true of $false depending on if a function key was pressed. (Including shift+fk or ctrl+fk)

How would it work though? If I hit F1 when I start mIRC, will $key be $true until I close mIRC? Or did you have something else in mind?

It was something like



Which would stop people calling it as /F2 or $F2 (if that makes sense), meaning it would only work if F2 was pressed.

Oh I see. I agree this would be nice

I'm confused wouldnt it be $true if it was pressed anyway?

If you had that code added, the did /F2 it would see if the F2 key was pressed, if is true then it does what its suppost to do, otherwise it does nothing.

I think he means it would only be $true if the alias was called by a user hitting a key on the keyboard, rather than calling it as /F1

What about $isid or do I have the wrong concept?

$isid checks if it is being called as an $identifier, but he wants something to determine if an F* alias was called because a user hit the key.

Ahh you are right I don't know what I was thinking. Good idea.

So in theory if this was added lets say...



If this was added for all Function Key variants we could have 72 fkeys? Well, not 72 fkeys. But can perform 72 different things, right?

Yeah, but 36 of them would only be executed when called as /F1, /SF6, /CF12, etc.

Yep, that's what I mean. 36 by by using the keys. And 36 by the command (/sf1).

What displayes if i press F6? (and why)

haha, but who would honestly do that though? It's a waste of time and a waste of a function key.. :tongue:

That was a simplified example (as well you know it ) how pointless was the F1 alias for that matter.

But the example shows how a problem could occur, the F6 function might need to run F1 fucntion as part of that it does.

Actually i dont really see the point of it, I mean if its simply do one thing or the other based on if the key is pressed, why not have

F1 { echo F1 key pressed }
~F1 { echo ~F1 function called }

I mean if your gonna type something at the keyboatrd like /F1 whats the difference in what you type, you might as well type /BOBTHEMONKEY

Have i missed something?

There is $keyval where you can get the ASCII code and define with a if ($keyval isnum ASCII_F1-ASCII_F12)

There could be a command to switch on/off/change the $key value (depending on what $key ultimately returns).



Alternate format in red

-genius_at_work

ok ... better idea

$key - Returns either $true or $false depending on if a function key was pressed.
$keyname - Returns the name of the function key pressed. e.g. F1, CF1 etc.

or what genius_at_work said, whichever method is fine.

I think $key should be $true in that example. There's many reasons for aliasing function keys

Nothing wrong with F1 and F6 doing the same thing.