Hi Guys: OK, tried f2 this morning on a project folder inside the OS (c drive) folder and today it worked. Alt-d also gave me the path. I did route the mouse to it but the keypad number 5 didn’t read anything except the entire label as it were, the folder name no matter how many times I hit it in succession but the other f2 method worked. This means something random went wrong in WindowEyes yesterday causing f2 not to work or at least not to read the dialog or I was on, as Rod mentions, a non changeable label whatever that is. Thanks for the heads up guys and, by the way Rod, what do you mean by a changeable label in this context? Can you give me one so I can see if perhaps I was on one yesterday when I tried the f2 key? Rick USA .
-----Original Message----- From: Rod Hutton [mailto:rod_hut...@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 8:57 PM To: 'Rick Thomas' <ofbgm...@mi.rr.com>; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> Subject: RE: Read System Files And Folders One Character At a Time Hi Rick, F2 will work in This PC only if you're on a disk or device which has a label which can be renamed. Hth, Rod -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:talk-bounces+rod_hutton=hotmail....@lists.window-eyes.com] On Behalf Of Rick Thomas via Talk Sent: November 13, 2015 7:00 PM To: 'Tom Kingston' <tom.kings...@charter.net>; 'Window-Eyes Discussion List' <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> Subject: RE: Read System Files And Folders One Character At a Time Hi Tom and thanks: F2 did not work. It has worked on the desktop but it did not work during that session when I was in the This Computer and then in the OS folder. Perhaps something got temporarily mucked up. I will give it a go tomorrow just to check it out and verify it works and, if not, will get more detailed specifics on what and where I am if it doesn’t work. I will also try your other suggestions. Later and thanks again: Rick USA -----Original Message----- From: Tom Kingston [mailto:tom.kings...@charter.net] Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 5:45 AM To: Rick Thomas <ofbgm...@mi.rr.com>; Window-Eyes Discussion List <talk@lists.window-eyes.com> Subject: Re: Read System Files And Folders One Character At a Time Rick, I'm not sure exactly where you're referring to. Within the "This PC" window on Windows 10 I can spell everything by routing the mouse to it and hitting the current clip hot key once to read it, twice to spell it, and a third time to spell it phonetically. But there are no paths in that window. F2 works on any file in Explorer. And Alt-D puts you in the address bar and the full path is already highlighted. So you can just copy it or read it. F6 returns you to the main window. Tom On 11/13/2015 4:04 AM, Rick Thomas via Talk wrote: > Hi: Using f2 I can read the Desktop items one character at a time to look > for capitals, comes up in a textbox. > In the "This Computer" list of operating system files and folders hitting f2 > does seemingly nothing so I cant look for capitals in system files and > folders. > How do I read the list of entries, a selected entry, one character at a > time? > I often need to build file paths to a particular file or folder, the path to > it is in the properties window for the item, window eyes only reads the > information in this operating system using the mouse, but it is so far > doable. > So why doesn't f2 work and how do I read a list item to look for capitals in > the name? > I run Windows 8.1 and WE 9.2. > Rick USA > > _______________________________________________ > 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/rod_hutton%40hotmail.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. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.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
