I would just create a global hot key that puts focus back and then click the 
appropriate  control  you could probably even have it only active when twain 
panel is active.   


Jonathan Cohn 

> On Jan 13, 2016, at 7:58 PM, Rod Hutton via Scripting 
> <scripting@lists.window-eyes.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just thought I'd put out this question to you insightful people before I go 
> through the effort of writing a Window-Eyes app to address it.
> On the Kurzweil list, some users are having the issue of Kurzweil 1000 losing 
> focus during a scan, making it impossible to control the scan process until 
> the scan process completes, whereas, normally, you can always interrupt a 
> scan.
> Stephen Baum, from Kurzweil tech support writes:
> 
> The Plustek scanner puts up a calibration dialog at the beginning of a scan, 
> which takes focus away from Kurzweil 1000. That same dialog disappears later 
> on in the scan, and focus returns to Kurzweil 1000. It is annoying, and as 
> I've posted a number of times, I think it is a violation of the TWAIN 
> specification on the part of Plustek.
> 
> End of quote from Stephen Baum
> 
> Now I know it wouldn't be very difficult to create a Window-Eyes app to 
> detect the loss of focus and return it to Kurzweil.
> However, I thought I'd put the question out to you, that is, is there a way 
> of preventing focus loss within Windows using any means you may be aware of?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rod
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