keyboard hotkeys

TRY:  funckey ~G grid toggle

Thanks, that worked perfect.

So the tilda means "Control"? It works for uppercase and lowercase "G", which is nice. If I wanted to assign hotkeys using "Shift" key, what is that syntax?

In my code I use quotation marks around the command name and the hotkey. Is it not needed?

Thanks.

 The 'S' character indicates Shiftand the 'A' indicates Alt. You need to be careful with Alt since Microsoft reserves multiple key combos for its own use.

   alias ~SG grid toggle    - for Control-Shift G

   alias ~AG grid toggle    - For Control-Alt G

   alias ~ASG grid toggle  - for control-alt-shift G

For control and function keys, the alias and funckey work the same. If you don't use keyboard modifiers then alias and function work slightly differently:

  alias g grid toggle    - Requires you to type g<RETURN>

  funkey g grid toggle - This just requires 'g' with no <RETURN>

You can play on the Allegro status/command area to see what is done. For example type:

     alias <Control>g

and you should see

    alias ~G

 The master env file (towards the middle) contains more examples and info

    <CDSROOT>/share/pcb/text/env

Thank you for your help. Now I understand the difference between funkey and alias.

Alias is case sensitive. I set up alias for specific grid settings that run a macro, but I created 2 aliases for upper case and lower case.

For example:

alias g50 replay grid50

alias G50 replay grid50