topic Re: turn off F8 in log window? in SAS Enterprise Guide

turn off F8 in log window?

KHaavik — Tue, 17 May 2016 19:56:22 GMT

Is there a way to prevent an accidental F8 in the log window from running the entire egp? I do not ever want to submit code from the log window, but my finger sometimes hits the button out of habit.

Re: turn off F8 in log window?

SASKiwi — Tue, 17 May 2016 20:36:41 GMT

I don't think EG function keys can be changed unfortunately.

Re: turn off F8 in log window?

CaseySmith — Sat, 21 May 2016 03:31:41 GMT

It appears pressing F3 or F8 in a log window currently runs the entire process flow the program is in. That is not intuitive. If focus is in the log, I would not expect F3 or F8 to run anything, since a log is not "runnable" (for the same reason there is no Run button on the contextual toolbar for logs, but there is for programs). I'll enter this as a suggested improvement in our tracking system, such that F3 and F8 do not run anything when focus is in a log.

Re: turn off F8 in log window?

KHaavik — Sat, 21 May 2016 04:03:54 GMT

Having F8/F3 do nothing in the log window would be awesome from my point of
view. I don't ever want to run code from there and I've hosed my data in a
huge process flow a couple of times by making this mistake.

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Re: turn off F8 in log window?

SASKiwi — Sun, 22 May 2016 01:10:29 GMT

Agreed and great idea - I've ended up running all open programs accidently this way as they automatically get added to the process flow.