Hi!
Yes, I agree with Chip but I just avoid only the Window key, but I use all
the other keys.
Also, I may not need to have another person test the Trek game for I will
just shut off the engine then turn it back on afterwards.
I am doing this just in case no engines are installed and a sighted person
wants to play the game and it is almost ready.
Also getting out more bugs for those with a voice engine...
Bruce
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 5:26 PM
Subject: RE: hotkeys in Windows7
This is one reason why the app menu was established, allowing each app to put
its commands on the app menu, thus bypassing the whole hotkey competition. As
long as an app developer makes certain to put all his functions on the app
menu, then the user can end up choosing where the hotkeys get assigned, and
which apps he will access via the app menu.
Chip
From: Rasmussen, Lloyd [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 8:48 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: hotkeys in Windows7
The Windows-number hotkeys are for programs that are "pinned" to your taskbar
(somewhat like the old Quick Launch bar) or that are running. So you are most
likely to have Windows-1 assigned and much less likely to have Windows-9. I
had not heard of that Alt-Windows-number shortcut; the context menus for these
programs can be useful. Note that several more Windows-letter keys are being
assigned in Windows 8, although the whole alphabet is not yet covered. I
wonder if you might be able to use Windows with a function key. The problem
with that is that some devices by default use their function keys to activate
proprietary functions, and you must press the Function key near the lower left
corner to turn them in to F1 through F12. I don't know what to advise you to
do.
Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Library of Congress 202-707-0535
http://www.loc.gov/nls
The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the
Library of Congress, NLS.
From: David [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 3:56 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: hotkeys in Windows7
I had an idea of using a couple of hotkeys for one of my app. Under Windows
XP, these worked just fine. But when I loaded the app on my netbook, running
Windows7 Home, I ran into trouble. Every time I pressed the hotkeys of my app,
certain Windows features was carried out instead. I just wonder, if this is
normal behavior on those hotkeys - like if it is standard Windows hotkeys in
Windows7 - or if my netbook has some unusual ideas of its own.
I planned to use the hotkeys of Alt-Windows-1 through three. But for
instance, pressing Alt-Windows-1, I was presented with a dialog, and WE says
Shortcut list. Same goes with Alt-Windows-2.
I Now decided to switch my hotkeys, and tried the Ctrl-Windows-1 tthrough 3.
Ctrl-Windows-1, loaded a dialog saying "libraries". 2, loaded Windows Media
Player; and 3, loaded Firefox.
I ended up having to go for a totally different set of hotkeys.
Since this is my first touch with anything above XP, I might be some kind of
a dummy here. But is it so, that we are quite limitted in choices of hotkeys in
Windows7, due to the OS being set up with a number of new hotkeys? Is my
netbook simply behaving normal, or is this out of standard? Any feedback would
be appreciated, so that I don't run into trouble when the app is released and
installed on other systems. Yes, I know that the user can go to the hotkey
manager, and change the hotkeys to fit his computer. But not everyone knows,
and best thing is to have an app that works "right out of the box".
Thanks, everyone.
