jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) (06/18/91)
How come hotkeys defined for Recorder don't workj when a DOS window is active? Is there any way to get them to work? It's a bit of a bum-biter to not be able to use a system-wide macro whenever a DOS window is active... jas -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey A. Sullivan | Senior Systems Programmer jas@venera.isi.edu | Information Sciences Institute jas@isi.edu | University of Southern California
ih@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Ian Heath) (06/19/91)
In <18274@venera.isi.edu> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes: >How come hotkeys defined for Recorder don't workj when a DOS window >is active? Is there any way to get them to work? It's a bit of a >bum-biter to not be able to use a system-wide macro whenever a DOS >window is active... Blame Microsoft! When a DOS window is active ALL keys are sent to it with the noteable exception of ALT+ESC, ALT+TAB & ALT+ENTER. I suppose you'd get annoyed if you were using you're favourite word-processor in a dos window and pressed ALT+SHIFT+Q to reformat your text and another window popped up instead! Another annoying feature is that if you activate a DOS window, you lose the mouse UNTIL you left-click on something else (this is in 386Enh mode). Its a real bummer if you've got applications that use the right mouse button (like I have). Ian -- Ian Heath, email: ih@ecs.soton.ac.uk (BITNET) or ih@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) "And now you are alone my friend and I must set you free And you must face the world outside and find your destiny" - Freudiana
billf@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bill Flynn) (06/20/91)
/ hpfcso:comp.windows.ms / ih@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Ian Heath) / 4:59 am Jun 19, 1991 / In <18274@venera.isi.edu> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes: >>How come hotkeys defined for Recorder don't workj when a DOS window >>is active? Is there any way to get them to work? It's a bit of a >>bum-biter to not be able to use a system-wide macro whenever a DOS >>window is active... > > Blame Microsoft! When a DOS window is active ALL keys are sent >to it with the noteable exception of ALT+ESC, ALT+TAB & ALT+ENTER. > Well, not quite. By default Alt+Tab, Alt+Esc, Ctrl+Esc, PrtSc, Alt+PrtSc, Alt+Enter, and Alt+Space are not sent to the DOS window, but this is easily overridden in the Advanced screen of the PIF for DOS Prompt. But on Jeff's original question I unfortunately have no answer. But I suppose a couple of things to check would be make sure you don't already have the shortcut keys reserved in the DOS Prompt PIF or that you don't have shortcut key checking turned off under Options in the Recorder. The latter isn't too likely since Recorder enables this whenever it starts up. The former could be the problem. This would prevent Recorder from sensing the shortcut keys. Bill...