[jawsscripts] Re: Windows key
- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:08:10 +0200
I am using another method of trapping the Windows key for a few years, and it
works very well.
It is a hardware-based method.
I have... taken out the key from the keyboard. :-)
--Octavian
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Pinto" <davepinto@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 12:28 AM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Windows key
> Got a couple of related questions.
> 1. Does anyone have a strategy to determine if the Windows key has been
> pressed?
> 2. Is there any way to intercept the Windows key from going to the system?
>
> Basically, I've been frustrated in my ambition to take control of the
> Windows key in scripted environments where students are getting in trouble
> by inadvertantly pressing the Windows key. Here's what I've noticed about
> JAWS and the single Windows key.
> 1. In JAWS keyboard help mode, the Windows key is not trapped, but rather
> executes its function of opening the start menu.
> 2. The Windows key doesn't register in the KeyPressedEvent () either in the
> currently loaded scripts or the default scripts that are invoked when the
> start menu gains focus.
>
> So right now, the only way I know of determining if the Windows key has been
> pressed, is to test for its effect in the WindowActivatedEvent (). In other
> words, did the start menu open? Fortunately, before the currently loaded
> scripts unload and the Start Menu's default scripts load, the
> WindowActivatedEvent () contains that information. At any rate, does anyone
> have a better strategy to determine if the Windows key has been pressed?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> David Pinto
> YesAccessible.com
>
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