WP Doesn't Look In Other Directories For Keyb

DocumentID: 612994
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:35:36 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: In WordPerfect 5.0, if a path is not listed in Setup for Keyboard/Macro Files and the keyboard files are in the WP directory, the keyboards will show up when you go into Keyboard Layout. In WP 5.1 they are not found under the same conditions. Macros are still found, but keyboards are not. Is there a reason why this was changed, and why it was changed only for keyboards and not for macros? Solutions: WP changed the way in which it searches. In the earlier versions of WP (both 5.0 and 5.1), if you tried to execute a macro from a directory where the macro did not exist, and if the path for macros was not the correct path for the location of this particular macro, WP would still find the macro. It would go through a series of searches of directories and then perform the macro. This was also the same for keyboards. The procedure is still the same for macros, but it has since been changed for keyboards. WP no longer searches the path for keyboard information. The following information is true for the 03/09/92 interim release. For the network version of WordPerfect: If a path is specified in Location of Auxiliary Files, WP will go directly to that drive letter and directory for macros and keyboards. If no path is specified, WP searches the directory where the WP.EXE file resides and then the user's default directory. For the stand-alone version of WordPerfect: If a path is specified in Location of Auxiliary Files, WP will go directly to that drive letter and directory for macros and keyboards. If a path is not specified in Location of Auxiliary Files, WP will search the user's default directory and no other. If you want to create several macros that have the same name, you must remove the commonly named macros from the program directory and from the normally designated macro directory. Move each of the "same name" macros into a separate directory. You then have the choice of changing the default directory or changing the macro directory in Location of Auxiliary Files to access one of the macros. One customer's macro editing screen was blank after pressing Home, Ctrl-F10 and typing the macro name. The customer's macro was not in the macro directory specified in Setup, the default directory, or the program directory; therefore, WP created a new macro with this name. Changing the macros directory location in Setup to the right directory corrected the problem.

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