the thing is, however, suppose we're running window-eyes, and need to use the scanner utility, what would happen then? I've had to have my scanner "print" a document.
At 05:16 PM 1/13/2016, you wrote:
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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