I'm a bit confused, so let me see where we're going amiss... When you make an outgoing call, the dial pad is automatically available when the call connects, so you can just tap digit keys to dial digits, without doing anything else fancy to focus the dial pad first.
When you receive an incoming call, you are right that focus will not necessarily land on the dial pad. Ctrl+Shift+D worked to focus the dial pad in some cases, but it was never fully reliable. In Skype 4.1 release though, "Dial pad" shows up in the Insert+F8 item list, and pressing Enter there does seem to work. An alternative to Insert+F8, for those who prefer the Command key sequences, is Command m t. The Command key is the left square bracket by default. You say you can't tab to the Dial Pad button on an incoming call. I am running the official Skype 4.1.0.136 release version, and "Dial pad" is indeed in tab order, a few tab stops after the Edit box for the call's conversation window. I'm not sure why you wouldn't have that button in yours. So in summary, look for the Dial Pad button in the call's conversation window, for both incoming and outgoing calls, and/or use Insert+F8 to get to it if that's easier. Hth. On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:29:05PM -0700, Darrell Shandrow wrote: Hello Michele, Unfortunately, this doesn't work. When the specific call's window is focused, it says "dialpad closed" and when the main Skype window has focus, it says the conversation is invisible, or something similar is going on. Thanks for trying. :-) After placing an outgoing call, I can tab to and select the Dialpad button, but the same is not true for an incoming call. Does anyone else have any ideas? Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michele Barbi" <[email protected]> To: "screen access software with skype" <skypeenglish at emissives.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 11:51 PM Subject: Re: [Skypeenglish] Quick way to access Skype 4.1 dialpad togenerateDTMF tones? Hi, not sure if it will work, but while in a call try pressing ctrl+shift+d and see what happens. Note that this command require you have the scripts installed and running. Bye! Barbuz Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To access tutorials and other goodies go to http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list Skypeenglish at emissives.com http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com Thanks for posting to the skype english list. To access scripts for the latest version of skype go to http://www.dlee.org/skype To access tutorials and other goodies go to http://www.marrie.org/skype/skype.html thanks and have a wonderful day. _______________________________________________ Skypeenglish mailing list Skypeenglish at emissives.com http://emissives.com/mailman/listinfo/skypeenglish_emissives.com -- Doug Lee dgl at dlee.org http://www.dlee.org SSB BART Group doug.lee at ssbbartgroup.com http://www.ssbbartgroup.com The very smart may feel they have nothing to learn from anyone; The very wise will find something to learn from everyone. (7/14/01)
