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From: wek@point.UUCP (Bill Kuykendall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Anarkey running under DESKview
Keywords: anarkey
Message-ID: <[2105.3]comp.ibmpc;1@point.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 89 05:00:07 GMT
References: <168@sluga.UUCP> <510@maytag.waterloo.edu>
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> Is there somebody outhere who knows anything about running 
> Anarkey together with DESKview. I have tried but it does not

>On my system, it only works within a DOS window; it can't be loaded first
>or I get the lock-up.  But even then, there's a strange bug:  when I hit

I don't have any experience with Anarkey, but I have used Keyworks with
Desqview in both configurations.  The runtime version of Keyworks can even
be loaded in high ram to squeeze a bit more memory out of the configuration.

The one "bug" that's difficult to get around is that, if you make menus with
your macro program, they will not display in any application that you have
set the "writes directly to screen" attribute for in the program setup.  The
reason for this is that Keyworks is not using the same video buffer space as
the application.

For most applications, Desqview's macros should be sufficient.  You can
expand the buffer size to handle as many macros as you need, and they can
cross applications if you need a single macro to perform tasks in more than
one window.

The reason I needed to use Keyworks (Keyworks Advanced, actually) was to use
an intelligent Lotus PRN file parser that used Keyworks ability to read the
screen and branch conditionally.

For "dumb" macros, I wouldn't use anything but DV.

Bill Kuykendall
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