Hi Chip: Now, I think I know what to make my script do if I am in a menu rather than an editing situation, but how do I make my script no which is which? Kevin Huber
On 4/12/10, Kevin Huber <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/10/10, Tom Kingston <[email protected]> wrote: >> Interesting. I just tried this in a few ap's. I can't even read the menu >> items in IE after routing the mouse to an open window. But if I set the >> mouse boundary to focused window I can then move around and read them. >> But >> regardless, in IE, OE, and Wordpad, the mouse always landed about 15 >> pixels >> to the left of the menu item. the only place I could get it to work with >> active window being the mouse boundary was in Notepad and Word. Although >> it >> was still off and I had to use next clip to read it. >> >> Tom >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Kevin Huber" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 10:42 AM >> Subject: Re: Moving mouse pointer to highlight >> >> >>> Hi Chip: >>> no it doesn't. >>> For example, if you are in IE and you go to the File menu, press the >>> down arrow, which will highlight "new tab", then press insert-numpad >>> minus, and then press numpad 5 to read the line containineg the mouse, >>> you here nothing. >>> >>> >>> On 4/9/10, Chip Orange <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Kevin, >>>> >>>> does the mouse, after you move it to the highlight, read the highlight >>>> when >>>> you make it read the line? >>>> >>>> If so, then it may be an issue like the position of the highlight is >>>> one >>>> of >>>> it's corners, and the mouse is centered on it? or some such slight >>>> difference? >>>> >>>> Chip >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Kevin Huber [mailto:[email protected]] >>>> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 3:24 PM >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: Re: Moving mouse pointer to highlight >>>> >>>> hi Chip: >>>> OK try the following: >>>> 1. go to the menubar of whatever application you are in. >>>> 2. Arrow down to Save or Save As, just for the sake of argument. >>>> 3. Press insert-numpad + which will say "route pointer to menu". >>>> 4. Compare the position of the pointer and the position of the >>>> highlight >>>> and >>>> note that the position of the highlight and the position of the mouse >>>> are >>>> not equal.. >>>> Kevin Huber >>>> >>>> On 4/5/10, Chip Orange <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Kevin, >>>>> >>>>> It looks to me like you should be able to: >>>>> >>>>> executeHotkey hkMouseToFocus >>>>> >>>>> and do it that way. >>>>> >>>>> Chip >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: Kevin Huber [mailto:[email protected]] >>>>> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 4:38 PM >>>>> To: gw-scripting >>>>> Subject: Moving mouse pointer to highlight >>>>> >>>>> Hi: >>>>> I want to know if there is a way to move the mouse pointer to a >>>>> highlighted item in a menu, similar to the Mouse To Focus hotkey, but >>>>> this would move the mouseto a highlighted item in a menu. >>>>> Kevin Huber >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus >>> signature database 5015 (20100410) __________ >>> >>> The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. >>> >>> http://www.eset.com >>> >>> >>> >> >> > Hi: > Yes, As far as I can tell, it only works where there is an editing > cursor, but not in a menu or something where there is a highlight bar. > I am interested in this because I recently discovered that my "Make > Pointer Follow Cursor" script needs to be tweaked in order to work in > version 7.2 and I thought that while I am at it, I would try tomake it > work better all around if possible. > Kevin Huber >
