RE: The old Jaws hotkey issue, again

From: "Mullins, Chris" <Chris.Mullins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 08:27:50 -0000
When you have gone into the Shortcut dialog, have you checked what the
Target file edit box is referencing?  Changing the label of the icon is
not sufficient, the Icon might be labelled Jaws9 but if the file name in
the target edit box is in the Jaws8 folder you will load Jaws8.
Likewise, with an icon labelled Jaws8 pointing at the Jaws7 executable.
All a shortcut does is to simulate typing the contents of the Target
edit box into the Run dialog and pressing enter.   


Cheers
Chris
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Sent: 05 December 2007 06:37
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Subject: The old Jaws hotkey issue, again 

the topic of how to successfully set a hotkey for launching Jaws has
come up repeatedly over the past year, as Versions 8, and now 9, seem to
be troublesome for a lot of users in this respect. Well, I was doing
okay with version 8 for a while after finally getting a hotkey
assignment to stick (I forget how, exactly), but now I've installed
Version 9 and it's even stranger than before.

First of all, let me make it clear that I basically know how to do this.
At least I know how to do it for any other application that's
represented by an icon on my desktop. Select the icon, press the context
menu key (right side of spacebar, to left of Control key) and choose
properties. Tab, and you're in the edit field for establishing a hotkey.
You don't even have to bother pressing control and alt, because that's
the standard combination and Jaws will insert that for you. All you have
to do is press the letter key you'd like to use.

Then you hear Jaws read the edit box, and it'll say something like
Control Alt J. Which is what you wanted. You tab down to OK, press
Enter, and there you go.

Well, since Jaws 8, everyone's had to do all sorts of acrobatics to use
this feature. Advice floats around like urban myths. Use this letter but
not that letter. It's okay to tab away from the field, but don't tab
back to it or what you entered will disappear. Or don't tab at all, just
press Enter. If you tab further into the dialogue, it will delete your
entry. And so forth.

Now, none of that ought to be necessary, of course, and it didn't used
to be. Until Jaws 8. But whatever.

Now it's really interesting. I actually managed to set Control Insert J
for my new Jaws 9, and changed my hotkey for Jaws 8 to Control Alt K,
just in case I need to use it.

And both settings stayed set, which I thought was a good sign. But now,
if I exit Jaws 9 to see if restarting it will stop a bad behavior (don't
ask) and then press Control Alt J, what comes up but, yep, Jaws 8. I
went to the Desktop and rechecked. yes, everything is still set just as
I set it. But it's working the wrong way.

Ah, here's a thought, just for the heck of it. Let me exit Jaws 9, then
hotkey Control Alt key and see if it actually *also* brings up Jaws 8
or, maybe, launches Jaws 9, so that it's all backward. Hang on..
Nope. Control Alt K brings up Jaws 7, which is what it used to do before
I changed everything around. And if I go into the properties for the
Jaws 7 icon, it says it has no hot key, just as I'd think it would.
Nonetheless, it's as if Jaws 7 is still K, Jaws 8 is still J, and Jaws 9
has no hotkey. 
none of which is what properties say.

Has anyone been through this, or anything like it? I've tried this
repeatedly but can't get these hotkeys to behave correctly. Out of
ideas.

thanks.

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