Re: netbooks, keyboards, old-fashioned Xy4 DOS

[David Rosenthal davidrosenthal@xxxxxxxx]

I use autohotkey and leave it on in XyW (I'm using old III+; can't speak for IV). It works fine with (at least that version of) XyW.

Best,

David


----- Original Message -----
From: Harry Binswanger 
Date: Friday, July 16, 2010 10:55 am
Subject: Re: netbooks, keyboards, old-fashioned Xy4 DOS

> Carl wrote:
>
> > > I've been using Autohotkey for about 8 years, and have nothing
> > > but praise for it. Free from autohotkey.com
> >
> >How well does it coexist with XyWrite's KBD file? Within XyWrite,
> >which takes precedence for a given key, the Autohotkey assignment or
> >the XyWrite assignment?
>
> I'm glad you asked, because I should have added that. I have it turn
> itself
> off whenever Xy is the active Window. Here's the relevant portion of
> the
> script:
>
> SetTimer, WatchActiveWindow, 100 ; timing
>
> WatchActiveWindow:
>   If WinActive("XyWrite")
>     Suspend On
>   else if not GlobalSuspension
>     Suspend Off
> Return
>
> Pause:: ; Set Pause button to toggle a suspension globally, not just
> in XyWrite
>   Suspend Toggle
>   GlobalSuspension:=not GlobalSuspension ; toggle the flag, too
> Return
>
>
> I actually use a longish disjunction in the IfWinActive line, to cover
>
> NotaBene and cmd.exe, but I omit that here for reading ease.
>
>
> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx
>
>