David, You could use registerHotKey for the alt-downarrow, but your real problem is knowing when they've hit something else. if any other key will terminate your counting, then you'll need to learn to use the onKey event, and test to see if it's not alt-downarrow. Chip
_____ From: David [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 11:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Sending Alt-Tab in a script - doesn't work fully, why? Great, thanks. This made sense, and works nicely. Now, let me just ask one more question, kind of in the same line, which I am not sure if it is possible, and in case, how to go about. Let's change the sub lines, a bit. Say that the script would count the numbers of Alt-Down arrows, that a user pressed, and replace them with Alt-Tab sequences. Guess I would have to do something like the following: Speak "You have pressed the hotkey " Keyboard.InsertKeyDown VK_Alt Keyboard.InsertKeyDown VK_Tab Keyboard.InsertKeyUp VK_Tab Count = Count +1 Speak Count & ", " Keyboard.InsertKeyUp VK_Alt Speak " Times." But, how do I know, if the user pressed the hotkey (Alt-Down arrow), 1, 2, or 10 times. Is it possible to somehow hook on to the Alt-key, and 'keep counting', long as the hotkey is repeated? The speech output then would be like: 'You have pressed the hotkey 1, 2, 3, 4, times' Thanks again! ----- Original Message ----- From: Doug <mailto:[email protected]> Geoffray To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 3:34 PM Subject: Re: Sending Alt-Tab in a script - doesn't work fully, why? David, Jared hit the nail on the head with this one. But I just wanted to add that you could use the following method: Keyboard.InsertKeyDown vk_ALT Keyboard.InsertKeyDown vk_TAB Keyboard.InsertKeyUp vk_TAB Keyboard.InsertKeyDown vk_TAB Keyboard.InsertKeyUp vk_TAB Keyboard.InsertKeyUp vk_ALT This duplicates what you are really doing from the keyboard manually. That being holding down the ALT and while keeping it down tapping the TAB twice and then letting go of ALT. Regards, Doug Jared Wright wrote: David, You are not pressing alt+Tab twice to get to document 3. You are holding alt and pressing tab twice. If you really pressed alt+tab, released it, you'd be in document 2. When you did it again, the first window it would take you to is the last one that previously had focus, which was document 1. Clear as mud? You might have more success iterating through the children of the desktop window for this rather than manually sending alt+tab keypresses. On 4/20/2010 8:18 AM, David wrote: One of my scripting projects, has to send a sequence of Alt-Tabs. To best reproduce my problem, here is what you can try. 1. Use Script Framwork, and create a new script 2. When asked to choose a hotkey, try setting it to Alt-Up arrow (this doesn't affect my probelm, but just to let you try it). 3. After Framework ends, open the script in your editor, and go to the bottom of it, and make the last Sub read the following: Sub ForwardTab(myKeyId) 'This routine is called when the hotkey Alt-Down is pressed. If Keyboard.KeyDescriberActive Then Speak myStrings(myKeyId & "_Description") Else 'Main routine functionality goes here Speak "Forward. " Keyboard.InsertKey VK_Tab, KmAlt Keyboard.InsertKey VK_Tab, KmAlt End If End Sub 4. Save your work, and load it in WE. 5. Open three or four documents/windows on your system. 5. Place yourself in Document1, and press the hotkey (alt-down arrow). 6. The script is meant to send two Alt-Tab sequences, which would have put you into document3. But, here is my problem. What happens, is that the script switches to document2, then immediately throws you back to Document1. Sitting in Document1, and manually pressing Alt-Tab twice, I will pass by document2, and be left in document3. Why won't it work with the script? Due to a timing issue? Or, is there any other stuff going on? Would I have been better off, not using the Framework script, to initially create my script. That is, does the Framework insert any instructions, that could have been omitted here, and that would affect the behavior? Thanks alot, everyone! _____ I am using the Free version of SPAMfighter <http://www.spamfighter.com/len> . We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 1485 of my spam emails to date. The Professional version does not have this message.
