Re: strange problem with jaws 8 and ctrl+alt+j hotkey

  • From: "Lenny McHugh" <lmchugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:42:36 -0500

I have no problem.
I first  deleted the hot key for 7.1.
JAWS 8.0 Properties
General Shortcut Compatibility
JAWS 8.0
Target type: Application
Target location: 8.0
Target: "C:\Program Files\Freedom Scientific\JAWS\8.0
Start in:
Shortcut key: Ctrl + Alt + J
Run: Normal window
Comment:
Find Target... Change Icon... Advanced...
Lenny http://www.geocities.com/lenny_mchugh/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: strange problem with jaws 8 and ctrl+alt+j hotkey


When I attempted to assign the hot key to my wife's installation of
jfw8, no matter where I assigned the hot key, in start menu or desk
top, it would not stick. It was not that it was assigned somewhere
else on the computer, just control-alt-j would not work. It still
doesn't. I've been doing these computers since 1992 so this is an old
procedure which in a new way, does not work no matter how I fiddle with it.


At 07:02 AM 11/19/2006, you wrote:
>Laura,
>Well, this is really disconcerting.  My first impression, obviously, was to
>presume that the first person to present this problem simply didn't realize
>that the hotkey properties would have to be modified in the target field.
>By the way, never before have I had a Jaws update to a new version revise
>this field all by itself during install.  You seem to be implying that this
>could have happened? I mean, if things had been working normally.
>
>Anyway, if you're having trouble like what you describe, something's pretty
>fishy.  Because this is so irregular, I might have asked if you could get
>someone sighted to look at that field and confirm what Jaws is reporting to
>you, but my experience with Jaws suggest that you aren't being lied to, so
>to put it.  It sounds as if no matter what you do with that field, your
>input disappears.
>
>Wow.  I'm just looking over my emails that arrived during the night, and I
>hope someone eventually comes up with a solution.  Or even an explanation.
>This is really strange, and I don't look forward to having to deal with it
>when I install Version 8.
>
>thanks for experimenting so thoroughly and reporting it.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Lora" <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 5:05 AM
>Subject: RE: strange problem with jaws 8 and ctrl+alt+j hotkey
>
>
>I agree here.  I'm having the same problem as others on this list, but I
>don't want a third party program to fix it.  It should work straight from
>the Desktop, which is how I've set up all my hot keys previously.
>
>So, I go to the Desktop, land on Jaws 8's icon, hit Alt-Enter for
>Properties.
>
>The Target field already reads:  "C:\Program Files\Freedom
>Scientific\JAWS\8.0\jfw.exe"
>
>I've verified that this is, indeed, where jfw.exe resides.
>
>Now I tab to the Shortcut Key field.
>
>I've tried the following:
>
>Just hitting j (which should go with the default, control+alt+j).
>
>Hitting control+alt+j directly.
>
>Now I tab forward a couple times, and then back to this field.  Usually, at
>this point it says None, when it reads the hot key, though sometimes it
>says, Control+altt.  (It doesn't say j at this point, just control plus
>alt.)
>
>This last time, it said Control+Alt+J, and I was happy.  So I exited Jaws
>and tried to bring it up with the hot key.  Nothing happened.  I started it
>manually, and went back to the Shortcut Key field, and it now says None
>again.
>
>I installed JAWS on Friday, when it was released to everyone, and the
>computer has been rebooted several times since then.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>Of Yardbird
>Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 8:13 PM
>To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: strange problem with jaws 8 and ctrl+alt+j hotkey
>
>Jim,
>don't you think it would be easy enough just to click on the icons's
>properties, tab to the Target field, enter the path and the exec. filename,
>and that would be that?  Why would you need some third party program?
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Grimsby JR." <jimgrims@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 6:23 PM
>Subject: RE: strange problem with jaws 8 and ctrl+alt+j hotkey
>
>
>HI GET WIN KEY. IT WILL SOLVE ALL YOUR PROBLEMS AS WELL AS GIVING YOU COOL
>WAYS TO LAUNCH PROGRAMS.
>YOU CAN GET IT FROM THE JFWLITE WEB SITE HTTP://WWW.JFWLITE.COM
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>Of Scott Van Gorp
>Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 9:50 AM
>To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: strange problem with jaws 8 and ctrl+alt+j hotkey
>
>
>Hi List:
>I've got a strange problem occurring with Jaws 8 on an xp pro laptop.   I
>uninstalled Jaws 7 after installing 8, and for some reason, I cannot get a
>hotkey ctrl+alt+j, or any other combination of that, to stick.  The window
>in the properties is set to run maximized, but when I apply the settings, 
>it
>doesn't seem to take?  Fortunately, Jaws is set to come up on startup, so
>that's not a problem there, but it would be good to have that hotkey back,
>just in case.  Any ideas?
>
>Scott Van Gorp
>
>
>
>
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