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Name: koopa
Date: January 21, 2009 at 05:38:31 Pacific
OS: Win 3.1
CPU/Ram: pentium 32mb
Product: Unknown / UNKNOWN
Subcategory: Software Problems
Comment:

Hoping some can help with this one or point in the right direction, I have a win 3.1 machine running a dos based application, the application has a bunch of shortcuts mapped to the fuinction keys e.g. F1, F2, etc would these shortcuts be written hard into the application code or is there a file somwhere that these would be written, whats the standard method of defining shirtcut keys within an app? Ideally I'd like to delete/modify some of these shortcuts.

Thanks for reading, any help appreciated.



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Name: Mechanix2Go
Date: January 21, 2009 at 08:58:59 Pacific
Reply:

They'd usualy be compiled into the app. Look in the directory where the exe is. If you're lucky there may be a key definition file.


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Response Number 2
Name: SkipCox
Date: January 21, 2009 at 13:28:59 Pacific
Reply:

Is the application something like Lotus 1-2-3 or a CAD program with no menu bar? Just for the heck of it, you could let us know what the application title is...

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Response Number 3
Name: koopa
Date: January 22, 2009 at 01:34:14 Pacific
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Hi,

Thanks for the replies folks, I'll dig around further looking for any key def file, the app is an old propietry piece of software, we use it to control a printing machine (old printing machine), I think the software is GEM?? I'm not 100% sure, it's DOS based and has a bunch of shorcuts mapped to the function keys which causes us heartache. Any help again is appreciated.

Thanks.


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Response Number 4
Name: T-R-A
Date: January 22, 2009 at 05:04:06 Pacific
Reply:

If it's the GEM from days of yor (aka Digital Research GEM) then it's gained an entire new life in open-source:

http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/index.html


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