how do you know what value to make the errorlevel when you're using the choice command in batch files? assuming you're making a menu with say.. 9 objects, and it goes somewhere different depending on which number the person pushes if the person pushes one, then it follows this code: if errorlevel 1 goto wherever and goes to "wherever" it works with 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0 I think. what about letters? how do you know which value to set the errorlevel to if you want the person to push a letter?

Example: CHOICE/C:ABC123 IF ERRORLEVEL = 6 GOTO CHOICE3 IF ERRORLEVEL = 5 GOTO CHOICE2 IF ERRORLEVEL = 4 GOTO CHOICE1 IF ERRORLEVEL = 3 GOTO CHOICEC IF ERRORLEVEL = 2 GOTO CHOICEB IF ERRORLEVEL = 1 GOTO CHOICEA If you don't handle errorlevels from the highest possible value to the lowest, then (due to the annoyances of Batch) anything less than or equal to the actual keypress will get executed. In other words, if the user presses 3 (with a value of 6) and you handle things with errorlevels from 1 to 6 (instead of 6 to 1 as in my example) then as far as Batch is concerned, ALL errorlevels are true and all would be executed. Takes a bit of getting used to. :)

What about when you get to errorlevel 10? is that possible? or does it just go errorlevel 10, 11, 12, etc..

You may go up to 26 for letters. Up to 9 for numbers. If you wish to use all the keys........ well then you need to create a second party program. To create your own scankey.com Using notepad or a text editor. USE YOU CAPS!!!! N SCANCODE.COM A 100 XOR AH, AH INT 16 CMP AH, 0 JE 100 MOV AL, AH MOV AH,4C INT 21 R CX 10 W Q Copy and paste the above. Call it scancode.scr Then in dos type: Save on a floppy in A: goto dos type A: enter Then type debug < scancode.scr enter File should be approx 16 bytes. Here are the keys and their errorlevels. Hope this shows up ok....but Starting from the top left at the esc key and going across the key board. ESC 01 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 86 87 88 P SCREEN SL PAUSE [224 42 55] 70 [225 29 69] ~ INS H PU KEYPAD 41 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 89 71 73 [69 53 55 74] TAB DEL END PD KEYPAD + 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 43 83 79 81 [71 72 73 78] C LOCKS ENTER KEYPAD 58 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 28 75 76 77 SHIFT UP KEYPAD ENTER 42 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 72 79 80 81 28 CONTROL KEYPAD 29 56 [NO CODE FOR SPACE BAR] 56 29 75 80 77 82 83 Peace Goodwill and Happy Computing

WOW! thanks a lot!! although... how do I use the scancode.com file once it's made?

World Library, since you seem to know a lot, is there any way I could have user imputs in a batch file? for example, the batch file asks the user to type their name. they do so, then press enter. then their name is used throughout the batch file for example. in other words, can you set a variable to what somebody types in? or another exmaple, say you want a batch file to do the same thing to many different named files in a directory. well, you could get it to do it all at once, but that's no fun (just more efficient) so my batch file asks me the name of the file, and then I type it in, and it does whatever it is told to do to the file with that name. I don't know if that makes any sense.. like with javascript. you pop up a prompt where the user types in his/her name, and then in your HTML, you can just write like.. %prompt% or something.. well, I think it's supposed to be written as "+prompt+" but you get my drift. wherever the phrase "+prompt+" appears, it fills it in with whatever the user types. is there a way to do this with batch files?

errrr, why wouldnt you just do "IF ERRORLEVEL 10" etc?