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June 28, 2010 at 6:46 pmThere is no OnKeyPress event, however, you may assign a particular key combination to a macro so that when the user presses that key combination the macro will run, for example: Ctrl+Alt+F1.
If you have XMetaL Developer then it is easy to assign a particular shortcut to each macro in your project using the properties window.
If you are building your MCR files by hand with a text editor of some kind, then the value to set is called “key” inside the
Perhaps if you can give us some more information on what you are doing we can try to offer some suggestions.