A-Shell Consolidated Reference

SWAPKEY=key     (or ^key or numeric value)

Examples:  SWAPKEY=^]      (Control bracket)

           SWAPKEY=0xFF47  (F12)

(Unix with PolyShell only) SWAPKEY functions like POLYKEY, except for three important differences. The first is that the key is not truly "hot;" that is, it can only be used when the process is actually waiting for keyboard input. The second is that rather than swap you to the PolyShell menu, it will swap you directly to the next instance of A-Shell running under the control of PolyShell—or, the reverse if PolyShell is launched with the –x switch. The third difference is that, unlike POLYKEY, the swap key may be a multi-key sequence generated by a function key. To specify this, you can use octal, hex, or decimal notation to indicate the two byte value which is returned by the function key. Numbers beginning with 0x are treated as hex, those beginning with 0 are octal, and all others are decimal. For your convenience, here are the standard two-byte values for function keys in hex notation: