key board mapping

[abushne]

Is there a way in zeus to map shortcut keys to various actions? In particular, I have setup a couple of tools I like to use on the current source file and would find it really handy to be able to associate a keyboard shortcut to launching the tool.

[jussij]

This Lua macro will run a DOS command:

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-- Filename: command.lua 
function key_macro()
  -- the default command
  local nill = "dir *.*"

  -- ask for a user for a command line
  local cmd = user_input("System Command:", nill)

  -- setup command control falgs (see the Zeus Macro help for details)
  local flags = 1+2+4+16+32

  -- set the default directory
  local dir = "c:\\"

  -- run command
  system(cmd, dir, flags)
end

key_macro() -- run the macro

You can also do something like this to run a program and capture its output:

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-- Filename: program.lua 
function key_macro()
   -- the file to be compiled
   local file_name = macro_tag("$fb") .. macro_tag("$ext")

   -- the directoruy of the file
   local dir = macro_tag("$fdd")

   -- NOTE: You will need to change the command below. 

   -- run the program and capture the output to a file
   local cmd = "c:\\some\\program.exe include " .. file_name .. " > output.txt"

   -- run the command hidden
   local flags = 16+32

-- this is for debugging only
message_box(1, cmd);

   local result = system(cmd, dir, flags)

   -- this file should have been  created by the program.exe
   local file_output = dir .. "output.txt"

   -- send the output to a Zeus compiler window
   file_open_compiler(file_output, "Forth Compiler")
end

key_macro() -- run the macro

So as you can see it is very easy to write a macro to run any sort of tool and capture it's output. Once you have a macro, all that remains is to bind the macro to the keyboard.

NOTE: For more information on any of the functions used in these macros, place the cursor on the word and use the Zeus Help, Quick Help Search menu.

Jussi

[abushne]

Thanks for the pointer and will search the help as well.