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All the best, Rod Hutton From: Rod Hutton [mailto:rod_hut...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 9, 2016 10:58 AM To: 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' <t...@lists.window-eyes.com> Subject: New app - KeystrokeSender! Hi everyone, Just a brief note to say that I've submitted a new app to App Central, KeyStrokeSender. The short description is: Use hot keys of your choice to send common Windows keystrokes The App Central URL is: https://www.gwmicro.com/App_Central/Apps/App_Details/?scriptid=1435 The full documentation follows, and so please read on. All the best, Rod Hutton Welcome to KeystrokeSender! This global app allows you to choose hot keys of your choice in order to send certain common keystrokes to Windows; specifically, these hot keys will send the keystroke to the active window. I wrote this app to allow you to keep your fingers oriented to the home row of your keyboard, reducing the need to search for hard-to-reach keys. If you wish, you can change the assigned hot keys in the Hot Key Manager. The list of hot keys and the keystrokes they send are as follows: Hot Key, Keystroke Sent Control-Alt-F, F6 Control-Shift-Alt-F, Shift-F6 Control-Alt-T, Tab Control-Shift-Alt-T, Shift-Tab Background Information and the Future I chose to make this app simple at first, defining hot keys for keystrokes which I usually found awkward to access. The first was F6, since this is used to toggle between the tree view and the content pane in the HTML Help system provided by most software today, including Window-Eyes; armed with Control-Alt-F, Enter and the arrow keys, I think you'll agree that it's a breeze to navigate help files. Itunes is another place where F6, and its directional opposite, Shift-F6, come in handy, since they allow navigation between the tree and list views within the current media tab; in fact, if you first press Control-F to focus the Search edit box, using Control-Alt-F alone is an extremely convenient and efficient way of navigating forward through any Itunes media tab, and, adding the Shift key to this key combination allows one to easily reverse direction. As for the rationale behind providing alternative hot keys for Tab and Shift-Tab, although habit causes me to reach instinctively for these keys, increasingly I have found that I prefer to leave my left hand on the keyboard's home row, especially when tab navigation is all that is needed, and being able to use Control-Alt-T, or its directional opposite, is very convenient. Finally, I realize that adding the Shift key to any keystroke makes the hot key a bit of a gymnastic exercise, but I have assigned them in accordance with common Windows practice. I hope you enjoy this app, and, as always, I am open to any feedback or suggestions for future improvements. Rod Hutton June 2016 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com/attachments/20160609/f17c7f17/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/scripting-window-eyes.com
