Re: Losing keyboard shortcuts with VDOS

["Paul Breeze" dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxx (Redacted sender "paul.breeze" for DMARC)]

Dear Carl
I have inserted the two Alt key assignments into my VDOS XY4 keyboard
but the results are not exactly as expected. At first Left-Alt simply
opened a command window which quickly closed, and Right-Alt did nothing.
 After pressing Alt-Enter and Alt-Tab a couple of time to see what
happened -- both seemed to perform the normal tasks -- Left-Alt now
opens 'Task bar and Start Menu Properties' while Right-Alt still does
nothing. I cannot find a documented keyboard shortcut for the Task bar
and Start Menu properties dialog.
I have just run idkey on my alt keys. Left-Alt if 56 but my Right-Alt
labelled Alt-Gr appears to be the same as Left-Ctrl, ie 29. Actually in
Windows it seems to perform the same function as Ctrl-Alt. I cannot
find any key to which 98 is assigned -- which is a little worrying.

Sorry not to be more helpful.

Paul


On 06/05/2016 22:39, Carl Distefano wrote:
Paul,

 This is easy to arrange
with the latest version of U2. For example, you could reassign Alt-Enter
to Left Alt and Alt-Tab to Right Alt, like this:

56=NOJM2,.,P,r,s,K,b,d,A,r,g,Q2a,u,5,0, ,s,e,n,d,(,",!,{,E,n,t,e,r,},",),NO
98=NOJM2,.,P,r,s,K,b,d,A,r,g,Q2a,u,5,0, ,s,e,n,d,(,",!,{,T,a,b,},",),NO

This should not affect your Alt+another key combinations, but will allow
you to do Alt-Enter by simply pressing and releasing the Left Alt key
and Alt-Tab by pressing and releasing the Right Alt key. If your problem
is the result of Windows getting "confused" about the up/down state of
the Alt key, this may do the trick since it forces you to do a full
up+down (press+release) gesture with the Alt key. On the other hand, it
may not work at all -- but probably worth a try.