Running the beta2, on a Win7 64bit pro machine. This is actually a
laptop, with its build-in touchpad.
Way too often when I try to use my numpad to move the mouse, all I get
from 2, 4, 6 and 8, is a ding. I can press Insert-plus on the numpad,
and the pointer will be reported to have moved to my cursor location.
And if I press the 1, 3, 7 and 9, I am reported to put the mouse focus
on either of the four corners of my screen.
The Screen Boundaries are set to FullScreen. Hitting Alt-5, till it says
line, does do my mouse nothing good either. I really don't know why the
mouse will only ding on me. (have to ask a zoologist, one of these days,
if they ever heard about the special spiece of mouse, named the
Ding-Mouse. Smiles.)
Anyway, today I made a couple of strange discoveries. First of all, if I
move my finger across the touchpad of the laptop, the physical mouse
pointer does positively move on the screen. I can confirm this two ways.
(1) I have the GWAudioKit installed, and also the Audible Mouse app. The
tones play nice and funny tunes to me, whenever I let my finger dance on
the laptop. (2) When fooling the mouse to run through the screen
picture, it every now and then happens to touch one of the icons
displayed. The speech then wil inform me what was touched. Hmm, really,
it all sounds like a pretty good "hit and miss" game, that could have
employed me on a boring afternoon. Smile.
Well, the other discovery I made, is when I decided to try reading the
screen with the WE cursor. I pressed Numpad-Minus, and was informed that
I now would be moving the WE Cursor. Allright, I thought, now I am not
tied up to where the mouse wants to sit and enjoying her cheese. Well,
guys, that was what I thought... Would you believe, the exact same thing
happens with the WE Cursor. I can move it to the corners, point it to my
system cursor position; but no chance whatsoever to have it move by
character or line, in either direction. This really puzzles me.
First of all, why can the physical mouse be moved, and the screen
reader picking up on it - but you cannot have the screen reader control
the mouse? Why is it, that apparently WE does not in effect hook on to
the mouse pointer itself? And really, even if the mouse is that
stubbornly refusing to move - you almost could start to name it a rat,
why in the world will not the WE Cursor get anywhere? At last, why is it
you can move things to the corners, but not anywhere in between?
Alt-Tabbing, I only hear four applications listed in the task list.
These are the Desktop, Thunderbird, Internet Explorer, and Windows
Explorer. That is all the applications opened at the very testing
moment. Closing either of them, has no effect. Restarting the computer,
no effect. Even a totally cold-start, only resulted in the very same
behavior.
Then, a few times the last days, I have been able to move the mouse
around. That is, for a while. Then all the certain, things are back to
this silly dinging. Only once, I have had a chance to have the mouse
working in Internet Explorer. Well, all till it reached the bottom of
the screen. Then it did not want to move anything more. Switching to any
other application on the computer, it has absolutely no benefit.
Wonder if this only happens here. Or, can anyone else reproduce any of
these sillinesses from the mouse. GW, is there a chance, that you more
directly could hook on to the physical and actual mouse pointer. When I
am told the numpad acts as my mouse, I wish that would be what it
actually did. If the physical mouse can run wildly around on the screen,
so should my numpad have the chance. Otherwise, I don't see how we are
to operate things that need mouse-action. If I got it right, the new
version of WE even goes deeper into the system in its handling. So it
just surprises me even the more, that the numpad and physical mouse is
not better close-knitted.
Any ideas or suggestions? Running several security packages, and have
scanned my computer frequently for years. Smile.
--
David
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