Norm's keyboard problem...

[Bob Zimmerman zimmerman@xxxxxxxx]

Jordan Fox wrote:
>Weren't there a couple kbd. programming calls, such as NI, created to deal with this issue in certain situations ?

I've tried NI, and NO, but they don't seem to make a difference.

>Anyway, it has to be significant that ALT-Tab is a _reserved_ combo.
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>I'm not even sure if you can change this to some
>other combo, within the OS.

You can. In XY, I have assigned alt-tab to "Page Up," a left-over from the first
word-processing program I had learned. In fact, for the same reasons, the tab key is my up-arrow
key.

In Windows 3.11 these changes gave me no problem at all, even though Win 3.11 still used tab and
Alt-tab in the same apparent way as Win 95.

By the way, I switch from XY by pressing alt-esc, a slightly different windows combo for switching
programs.

>I was going to say that it might be a good idea to avoid key-combo contentions like these, but then, one of the reasons we still use Xy is the whole "Have it YOUR Way" thing.

I readily admit that a conflict between my heavily customized kbd file and Win 95 is probably the
source of the problem. Oh well. The reason I love Xywrite so much is that it allows me this ability
to customize. I will eventually solve the problem by leaving Windows. (On another note, that these
conflicts didn't exist in Win 3.11 is an interesting factoid about the world of Windows.)

Bob
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