TIB: What's that shortcut?


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TIB: What's that shortcut?




Well, it sounds like most people are doing okay this summer, so that's 
good... :)

I actually have a... 'BASIC' QUESTION!!!  A while back (months ago), I came 
upon the knowledge that there was a mathematical equation that could be 
quite helpful.

For example, say you had a menu with choices from 1 to 7 and a "getky" 
command so the user could make his or her choice easier.  To display the 
number of the choice they picked, I'd have to write lengthy, lousy code like 
the following:

:WHILE getky == 0
:END
:getky -> A
:IF A == 92
:Disp "7"
:IF A == 93
:Disp "8"
:IF A == 94
:Disp "9"
:IF A == 82
:Disp "6"
**yadda, yadda, yadda...

I know someone came up with a math expression such that my code could be 
like:

:WHILE getky == 0
:END
:<MATHEMATICAL EXPRESSION USING getky AS THE VARIABLE> -> B

The variable B would contain the number of the key pressed.  (If 1 was 
pressed, B == 1.  If 2 was pressed, B == 2.  And so on and so forth...)

Anyway, now that my message has taken up 300k of space, I think I'll call it 
quits... :)

Any help you guys could give me would be greatly appreciated.

P.S~ J.G: reading in the summer?  Blecch!  :D


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