Useful DMSG keyins

Useful dialog based keyins

Description

DMSG DIALOGDEBUG TOGGLE

Used to find a dialogId

DMSG FOCUSDIALOG (dialogId) (taskId)

Send focus to a specific dialog

DMSG FOCUSITEM (itemId)

Send focus to a specific dialog item index

DMSG CLOSEDIALOG (dialogId) (taskId)

Close a specific dialog or tool box

Keyboard Equivilants

Description

DMSG ACTION OKAY

Enter

DMSG ACTION CANCEL

Esc

DMSG CLIPBOARD CUT

Ctrl + X

DMSG CLIPBOARD COPY

Ctrl + C

DMSG CLIPBOARD PASTE

Ctrl + V

DMSG CLIPBOARD UNDO

Ctrl + Z

DMSG CLIPBOARD REDO

Ctrl + R

DMSG CLIPBOARD CLEAR

Ctrl + C (with nothing selected)

DMSG CLIPBOARD DELETE

Ctrl + C (with nothing selected)

DMSG CLIPBOARD INSERTTEXT

No equivilant

DMSG CURSOR PREVIOUSPRIORITYWINDOW

Shift + Esc

DMSG CURSOR LEFT

Arrow Key - left

DMSG CURSOR RIGHT

Arrow Key - right

DMSG CURSOR UP

Arrow Key - up

DMSG CURSOR DOWN

Arrow Key - down

DMSG CURSOR DATABEGIN

Ctrl + Home(select from cursor to beginning of line)

DMSG CURSOR DATAEND

Ctrl + End(select from cursor to end of line)

DMSG CURSOR DELETELEFT

Delete all to the left of the cursor

DMSG CURSOR DELETERIGHT

Delete all to the right of the cursor

DMSG CURSOR DELETELEFTWORD

Delete word left of the cursor

DMSG CURSOR DELETERIGHTWORD

Delete word right of the cursor

DMSG CURSOR DELETEDATABEGIN

Delete from cursor to the beginning of line

DMSG CURSOR DELETEDATAEND

Delete from cursor to the end of line

DMSG CURSOR WORDLEFT

Ctrl + Arrow Key Left (select word to left of cursor)

DMSG CURSOR WORDRIGHT

Ctrl + Arrow Key Right (select word to left of cursor)

DMSG CURSOR FOCUSDOWN

Ctrl + Arrow Key Down

DMSG CURSOR FOCUSUP

Ctrl + Arrow Key Up

DMSG CURSOR LINEBEGIN

Home (top of list or selection)

DMSG CURSOR LINEEND

End (bottom of list or selection)

DMSG CURSOR PAGEUP

Page Up

DMSG CURSOR PAGEDOWN

Page Down

DMSG CURSOR NEXTFIELD

Tab

DMSG CURSOR PREVIOUSFIELD

Shift + Tab

DMSG CURSOR SELECTALL

Ctrl + A

DMSG CURSOR DESELECTALL

No equivilant

DMSG CURSOR TOGGLEINSERTMODE

Insert Key

DMSG CURSOR NEXTWINDOW

Focus to next window

DMSG CURSOR PREVIOUSWINDOW

Focus to previous window

Misc. Dialog Messages

Description

DMSG GUIMODE MOTIF

Change look of MicroStation to MOTIF

DMSG GUIMODE WINDOWS

Change look of MicroStation to WINDOWS

DMSG GUIMODE MACINTOSH

Change look of MicroStation to MACINTOSH

DMSG SINKALL TOGGLE

Sends dialog boxes to very bottom or very top layer

MDL Debugging

Description

DMSG ITEMDEBUG TOGGLE

Dialog item hook debugging

DMSG HANDLERDEBUG TOGGLE

Dialog item handler debugging

DMSG CLEARDEBUG

Clears information displayed in the dialog messages window

DMSG ACTION SHOWACCELERATORS

"List of: Accelerator keys, virtual and raw key code, DMSG keyin and command number"

DMSG ACTION SHOWMNEMONICS

Lists mnemonics of dialog box in focus. (i.e. DMSG FOCUSDIALOG 1 myapp;DMSG ACTION SHOWMNEMONICS)

DMSG SHOWVERSIONS

List of dialog item compent version numbers

DMSG HANDLERDEBUG BEFORE TOGGLE

Handler pre messages

DMSG HANDLERDEBUG AFTER TOGGLE

Handler post messages

DMSG OPENMSGFILE drive:\path\output.txt

Specifies file to capture DMSG messages to

DMSG APPENDMSGFILE drive:\path\output.txt

Specifies point at which to start recording to file

DMSG CLOSEMSGFILE

Stops recording and closes file