Hi Tom: The app was an attempt to fors the mouse pointer to follow the cursor. I am in the process of taking it off the App Central page because it may corrupt Window-eyes and I don't want people to run into trouble becausre they downloaded and installed that app. Kevin Huber
On 9/28/15, Tom Kingston via Talk <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not familiar with this app. But is it doing something that setting > Mouse, Other, Track mouse with focus, doesn't? > > Tom > > > On 9/28/2015 12:13 PM, Chip Orange via Talk wrote: >> That was poor phrasing perhaps on my part ... no one tried to do anything >> malicious. >> >> I see Kevin is doing something which should be legitimate: he's modifying >> the second action of each hotkey, so that after it does whatever you >> wanted ... it then moves the mouse pointer. >> >> There's something about setting these settings in WE 9.2 which is causing >> WE some difficulty. >> >> Since it's happening to you, would you mind contacting the author (Kevin) >> of this app to let him know about this problem? Perhaps even add a >> comment (using app central) so other users know not to try this? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Chip >> >> >> >> >> >> Chip Orange >> Florida Public Service Commission >> Computer Systems Analyst >> 850-413-6314 >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Talk >> [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Chip Orange via Talk >> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 11:58 AM >> To: net bat; Window-Eyes Discussion List >> Subject: RE: w e 9.2 became corrupted >> >> Ok, thanks, I'll go have a look at it ... this just normally should not be >> possible for an app to do without deliberate malicious programming >> designed to remove your settings, so I'm curious to see what it's doing. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Chip >> >> >> >> >> >> Chip Orange >> Florida Public Service Commission >> Computer Systems Analyst >> 850-413-6314 >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: net bat [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 11:49 AM >> To: Chip Orange >> Subject: Re: w e 9.2 became corrupted >> >> it is the make mouse follow cursor app. it corrupts w e every time i press >> the >> hot keys windos-alt t. as soon as i do this and open the w e control >> panel\cursors\keys or options screens all the settings will be gone. as >> soon as >> i reload w e it sends a error report every time. >> if i don't press the app hot keys w e will contintuecontinue to work with >> no >> errors. >> i disabled all other apps except the gw tool kit. >> with the same results. >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Chip Orange >> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 7:36 AM >> To: net bat ; Window-Eyes Discussion List >> Subject: RE: w e 9.2 became corrupted >> >> I don't think either app actually caused the corruption you found, but, I >> did >> want to mention that I and others have found that Window Maximizer from >> Jamal >> Mazrui can cause problems with some programs, when it tries to maximize >> certain >> windows which are not meant to be resized (and then you find that you >> cannot >> use that program). >> >> There's an alternative from GW called Window Manager; but you do have to >> specify each window it should maximize; but this is exactly what makes it >> much >> safer to use. You have to learn a little bit about how you specify the >> windows >> it should maximize; sometimes you can do it by title when the title never >> changes, but with other programs such as Notepad where the title is >> always >> different, you have to try combinations of window class and sometimes >> class >> and title. >> >> Hth, >> >> Chip >> >> >> >> >> >> Chip Orange >> Florida Public Service Commission >> Computer Systems Analyst >> 850-413-6314 >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Talk >> [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of net bat via Talk >> Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2015 11:59 PM >> To: via Talk >> Subject: w e 9.2 became corrupted >> >> i don't know if any of this was the cause. but today i installed the >> window >> maximizer and the make pointer follow cursor packages. >> about i used w e 9.2 for about an hour w e crashed and i got a send >> error >> report, which i did send. >> after i reloaded w e text would not speak or anything. the search boxes >> for >> firefox, ie, no text would speak in notepad etc. >> i found out all the settings for cursor were changed. they all said >> control e >> undefined 95 >> luckily i backup my c drive regularly once per week and was able to copy >> back >> the default folder and all is working again. >> time will tell though. i re installed the two apps above to see if w e >> 9.2 >> becomes corrupted again. >> especially the window maximizer. it does keep the wlm composition windows >> maximized and w e no longer stops talking with wlm 2012 and windows 10. i >> hope >> this app is not what caused the corruption. it works great with wlm. >> >> >> >> There's amazing intelligence in the Universe. >> You can tell because none of them ever called Earth. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/talk-window-eyes.com/corange%40psc.state.fl.us. >> For subscription options, visit >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >> List archives can be found at >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/talk-window-eyes.com/corange%40psc.state.fl.us. >> For subscription options, visit >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >> List archives can be found at >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/talk-window-eyes.com/tom.kingston%40charter.net. >> For subscription options, visit >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >> List archives can be found at >> http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com >> > _______________________________________________ > 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/talk-window-eyes.com/huber.kevin7%40gmail.com. > For subscription options, visit > http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > List archives can be found at > http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com > _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. 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