Esther, under System Preferences, Universal Access, Mouse, the first
option is use the keyboard in place of the mouse. You can set this so
that if you tap the option key five times, you can use VO to route the
mouse pointer to an item, and hold the control key down and press
number 5. I've used this in those cases where I couldn't use VO+shift
+spacebar. And yes I have also used the control and physical mouse as
well. Sometimes it's easier to use the number 5 method since I don;t
have to worry if I bumped the mouse a little.
On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:12 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Scott,
I'm curious about your instructions, because the instruction to turn
on mouse keys so you can hold down control and press the number five
on the keypad is the same as one of the ways to do a control-click
with a "physical click" on a Mac when you're on a web page link and
need to bring up the menu options to download or save a pdf or mp3
file instead of displaying in Safari. (Note to others: this bug has
been fixed in the WebKit nightly builds since August, so if you use
WebKit instead of Safari, the command to bring up contextual menus
with VO-Shift-M will work when you're positioned at the link to
download -- no more need to route your cursor to the link and
control-click to get the menu options. This means the fix should
also make it into the next major Safari release that uses
corrections in the underlying WebKit engine.)
To continue, all those instances of "control-click" required a
"physical click" with mouse or trackpad cursor to be made while you
held down the control key, and the mouse cursor had to be at the
location of the link (either because you set your navigation options
to have your Mouse cursor track you VoiceOver cursor in the
VoiceOver Utility, or because you issue the VO-Command-F5 to route
your Mouse cursor to your VoiceOver cursor). By "physical click" as
opposed to "software click", I mean that you had to use one of the
following alternatives:
• click a button on an attached mouse
• press the trackpad button on a laptop
• press the "5" key on the number pad when NumPad Commander is
activated (in Leopard)
• on laptops, turn on MouseKeys and press the "i" -- this is the key
that corresponds to "5" on older laptops (e.g. MacBooks made before
November 2007, or MacBook Pros made before February 2008, I think)
that still had a Numlock key function. Again, this only works for
Leopard. On older notebooks with the Numlock key function on the F6
key, you may also be able to press "Fn+i" and get a "physical
click". This is because pressing "Fn" plus the equivalent "Number
Pad" keys gave you access to the Number Pad keys in VoiceOver
without having to switch the Numlock function on. However, I don't
have access to an old laptop with the Numlock option and with
Leopard installed to test this.
By a "software click" I mean combinations like "VO-Shift-space"
which generally work when you need to "double-click" by holding down
Control-Option-Shift and tapping the space key.
Can you also use "Control-Click" with a Mouse to bring up the
contextual menu (without turning on MouseKeys)?
Does this mean a laptop Mac user could either "Control-Click" with
the Trackpad to bring up this menu, or turn on MouseKeys and press
control plus the "i" key instead of the "5" key on a keypad to bring
up the contextual menu?
Just wondering, because otherwise there doesn't seem to be a direct
answer for laptop users. The multiple options seem to make sense as
alternative ways to bring up the contextual menu, and provide a
suggestion for how to do this on a laptop.
Cheers,
Esther
On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:57 AM, Scott Howell wrote:
I finally found my answer and hopefully I can explain this
correctly. Bring up the list of virtual machines, this is the
virtual library; use command+shift+l if you aren't already there.
Now you will need to be sure your mouse is on the virtual machine
you want to make the change too. You will need to turn on mouse
keys so you can hold down control and press the number five on the
keypad. This will bring up the contextual menu and there is an
option in there for auto starting a virtual machine.
If you do not know about the keypad option (this is not num pad
commander for VO), let me know, but it is in the Universal Access
in System Preferences under the mouse options.
On Dec 4, 2008, at 6:16 AM, Will Lomas wrote:
hi all how can i stop fusion from auto starting an OS?
also when i tried to see if full screen was working when in xp the
mac just made the error beep when arrowing around the fusion
window no toolbar or similar object was visible
Scott Howell
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Scott Howell
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