Re: The old Jaws hotkey issue, again

From: "Curtis Delzer" <curtis@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 18:14:50 -0600
Thing is, about the jfw hot key, sometimes they sneak it in another place, 
under the program files freedom scientific jaws 9.0, the "jaws" selection, 
might have a hot key set there so one of them will work, or not work. :) I 
have had to do that in some circumstances where I saw a client's computer 
just not accept, no matter what I did otherwise, unless I put the hot key 
under that shortcut.
Curtis Delzer
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kerby Hill" <kerby.hill@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 7:43 AM
Subject: Re: The old Jaws hotkey issue, again


I haven't had this problem myself but what I did do was after I installed
jaws 9, I went into the jaws 8 properties and deleted the jaws 8 shortcut
key then went into the jaws 9 properties and set my hot key there and it
works like jaws 8 did.

Kerby

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 1:37 AM
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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References:
- The old Jaws hotkey issue, again
  - From: Yardbird
- Re: The old Jaws hotkey issue, again
  - From: Kerby Hill
Re: The old Jaws hotkey issue, again

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