Window-Eyes already provides a list of all registered hotkeys through
the aptly named RegisteredHotkeys object. You can do the following in
Immed to list all registered hotkeys for all apps:
for each x in Keyboard.RegisteredHotkeys() : print x.Script.Name & " - "
& x.Key : next
Aaron
On 10/13/2011 6:18 AM, David wrote:
Still, if I get Rick correctly, he does have a point here. Would have
been great, if there was a way, to list all currently defined hotkeys.
Guess, since more or less all hotkey depending apps would rely on
coding in the GWToolkit, that this would be the place for such a
feature to be found. Maybe something for the GW staff to keep in mind,
for a later update. Or, could there be an app made up, that would
scroll through all registered hotkeys, and put them on a list that the
user could bring up on his screen. Not sure here, but since we are
using the RegisterHotkey method of the GWToolkit when making a new
hotkey, doesn't that mean, that there is an array or the like, holding
all hotkeys? If so, would it be possible for an app, to scroll that
array? And, does that array - if it exists - hold any info as to whih
app holds the given hotkey.
Well, let me give one example when this could be useful, and which
might not just relate strictly to app development and WE itself.
Sometimes, you install other software on your computer. Software that
has its hotkeys. For instance, the mediaplayer I am using, has a
number of global hotkeys. OK, WE won't recognize those hotkeys - I am
fully aware - since they are not related to WE. Still, sometimes those
hotkeys might not work. Why, because one of the apps I am running
under WE, will have a definition for that very hotkey. Only, I am
running twenty or more different apps, under WE. So which one is the
complicated one? If now there was a way for me to quickly bring up a
list of all the hotkeys WE apps has on hold currently, and which app
relate to the individual hotkeys, I could quickly have discerned which
app to modify or disable; hence get my mediaplayer working flawlessly.
Hope this example makes a bit of sense.
Another time, when such a list could be helpful, is when you don't
remember the exact hotkey. Maybe because it is one of those you don't
use all that often. And, yes, you could open your app manager, and
start to scroll all the apps you have installed. But then, you don't
exactly remember which of the apps actually does the job you want. Or,
maybe you simply aint all that good at all this app stuff. Many a
user, will simply just know they can perform this and that operation,
by hitting the hotkey they happend to forget, not even knowing which
app does the trick. If now, you had a way to bring up a list of all
currently active hotkeys, and their short description, you could have
scrolled that list, and at least somehow quickly found the key
combination you were looking for.
Maybe such features already exists, just I aint aware of them. Or, is
this a possible app development idea for some smart guy out there?
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Vic Beckley <mailto:vic.beck...@hughes.net>
*To:* gw-scripting@gwmicro.com <mailto:gw-scripting@gwmicro.com>
*Sent:* Thursday, October 13, 2011 11:38 AM
*Subject:* RE: Finding Hot Key App
Rick,
You can go into the keyboard manager for each suspected app to see
exactly what hot keys the app is using. It would still be time
consuming but much more efficient than going into the source code
and looking for the hot key assignments. I don't hear that on my
setup so it is probably not a default app.
Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
Vic
E-mail: vic.beck...@hughes.net <mailto:vic.beck...@hughes.net>
*From:*RicksPlace [mailto:ofbgm...@mi.rr.com]
*Sent:* Thursday, October 13, 2011 5:28 AM
*To:* gw-scripting@gwmicro.com
*Subject:* Finding Hot Key App
Hi: I may have missed it but how do you find what app a particular
hot key combination is in?
For example, when I hit ctrl-shift-c I hear "The Chat Window Is
Empty" no matter what program I am in ie8 or the desktop or
notepad etc...
That tells me it is likely a WE Global App key combination but
which app?
I don't like having some chat functionallity running while I am in
other, non chat, applications.
In fact while typing this I hear the chat window is empty message
when I hit control-shift-c which I should not hear since there, to
my knowledge, no chat window active anyplace in Outlook Express
while I type this.
So, other than going into every app's source code if available and
then reading line by line and searching around how do I find this
problematic key combination and how do I handle this situation
going forward for all those key combinations that are what should
be considered app buggs rather than applicable to user activities.
Hot keys should only be active when the requsit program or form or
page is running.
Is there a way of identifying all WE active hot keys defined in
all those WE and Third Party Apps WE is becomming so dependent on?
What about 99 percent of WE users who are not scriptors,? How do
they handle this problem?
What, if anything, has been put in place as a standard or did I
just miss it?
Is there some WE hot key that will read or print out all the other
hot keys defined in all WE and Third Party Apps loaded and running?
My fear has always been that too many hot keys and messages are
floating around behind the scenes due to the use of Apps the way
they are implemented and can cause problems for WE users since, as
far as I know, they are not managed by the WE Engine.
I was confused when I hit ctrl-shift-c and heard there was nothing
in the chat window. I thought that I was missing something in ie8,
some type of chat might be open or some other problem. Fortunately
I know a little about scripting and am guessing this is a bug in
either a WE App or some Third Party App running gloabbly and not
assigned to a proper program.
If you recognize this key combo which app is it in and is there
some way that WE manages and documents hot key assignments running
at any given time?
I think I remember something on this from some posts a long time
ago but not what it was about and not what the final resolution was.
Rick USA
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