Another thing which confused me the very first time (and from time to time again now) is that FASMW.EXE closes the opened file on pressing ESC key.
Everybody who use searching in other WIN applications use it mostly the way that you search text with CTRL-F and when found you can close the search window by simply hitting the ESC key.

I don't know for what this feature is. I never found this behaviour in any other WIN program. Its very frustrating when you want to look your source code and try to close this search context through hitting ESC key. In fact it is not necessary to hit ESC but for me it is a kind of reflex. Maybe for other people same.

So is there a chance to shut off this closing function with ESC key or at least to change the closing key ?

Thanks a lot.

The ESC thing is one of the reasons I don't use fasmw. Perhaps you can consider using another editor instead. I used Notepad2, but there are many others around.

You can recompile the IDE - remove line 3345 from (FASM)/SOURCE/IDE/FASMW/FASMW.ASM

EDIT: or modify VK_ESCAPE to another key of your choosing

for me, it is not a problem, i started coding in fasm, and almost all the computer stuff with fasm.

i bought my first PC (PMMX@233MHz) 1 month before i knew fasmw (under moile account in 2005)

if your first computer practice include fasmw, it is not a problem.

Thank you very much, cod3b453.
I removed this line, compiled and now I am happy.


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Okay if you can resist to hit escape.
For me its a reflex to kick off any temporarily context window in an application.
And this works in many applications, at least in MS products.

Yes, fasmw does not follow the Windows' UI standards, as it follows the paradigms from the times of DOS and so-called Orthodox File Managers* - this is because it was written to provide me with the interface similar with the one I was used to while programming with DOS Navigator (this was the environment in which the fasm was written), and I wanted to have the same keyboard interface regardless of the operating system I'm running on. Well, so far there's only FASMW and FASMD. though I still hope to manage to make FASMX port as well.

However it will be possible to adjust FASMW to behave differently when I release the FASMW with plugin support (this may be before of after FASMX, I don't know yet).

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* You may notice that many Windows applications following the OFM interface (like Frigate or WinSCP - from the ones I'm using right now) still use Esc key to close a file editor window, too.

Thank you.
But what the hell is DOS ?

This is the strangest justification for not using an open source program by a die hard programmer

Even if it was closed source, you could use ResourceHacker to change the ESC key behaviour.

It is only one of the reasons. There are other reasons, but I don't want to turn this into a fasmw bashing thread Nah, too much trouble to keep changing it every time there is a new version.

revolution
Nah
in a group of Slavic languages sounds a big vulgarism i like internationalism, so many times you are a man as many languages you face(a man said)

I didn't mean to offend our Slavic readers.

It's cool ie. smiling situation. Never gnaw yourself for such a curiosity