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Re: Toggling "Touch Keyboard" On/Off, Firefox and Chrome.

From % <Persent@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, sci.physics, alt.comp.os.windows-10, news.software.readers, comp.lang.c++, alt.checkmate
Subject Re: Toggling "Touch Keyboard" On/Off, Firefox and Chrome.
Date 2018-07-18 06:23 -0700
Organization Altopia Corp. - Usenet Access - www.altopia.com
Message-ID <bek4h3.guk.19.6@news.alt.net> (permalink)
References (4 earlier) <Jeff-Relf.Me@Jul.10--2.24am.Seattle.2018> <Jeff-Relf.Me@Jul.10--1.52pm.Seattle.2018> <0eet1f-5ld.ln1@news.neodome.net> <slrnpkpgik.13ie.g.kreme@Snow.local> <k7t02f-cvk.ln1@news.neodome.net>

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On 2018-07-17 3:32 AM, Storage Unit wrote:
> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> writes:
> 
>> In message <0eet1f-5ld.ln1@news.neodome.net> Storage Unit <storage.unit@mailinator.com> wrote:
>>> Jeff-Relf.Me  @. writes:
>>
>>>> Previously, I wrote:
>>>>> I love my ArmMounted, 40 inch, 4k, curved monitor, at arm's length,
>>>>> in bed; but, with no real desk or touch screen,
>>>>> hardware keyboards are a major pain in the ass.
>>>>>
>>>>> So I was thrilled by the "Touch Keyboard" recently introduced
>>>>> to the Windows 10, MouseOnly DesktopMode;
>>>>> what's more, it lets me (voice) dictate text.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now, "Jeff-Relf.Me/X.HTM" supports these SystemWide "HotKeys"
>>>>> ( assigned to g600 mouse buttons, Jeff-Relf.Me/g600.PNG ):
>>>>>
>>>>>    Alt+Shift+Ctrl+K: Toggles "Touch Keyboard" On/Off.
>>>>>    Alt+Shift+Ctrl+M: Toggles Monitor On/Off(asleep).
>>>>
>>>> Compared to other apps, Firefox and Chrome are very picky
>>>> about how they interact with the Touch Keyboard;
>>>> so " Show Touch Keyboard button ", in SysTray, Must be Enabled.
>>>>
>>>> "Randomly", the keyboard is slow to come up; I'm working on it.
>>>>
>>>>      HWND  Win, TaskBar, SysTray, Keyboard ;  MSG  Msg ;
>>>>                  ...
>>>>      TaskBar  = FindWindow(               L"Shell_TrayWnd", 0 );
>>>>      SysTray  = FindWindowEx( TaskBar, 0, L"TrayNotifyWnd", 0 );
>>>>      Keyboard = FindWindowEx( SysTray, 0, L"TIPBand", 0 );
>>>>                  ....
>>>>      RegisterHotKey(
>>>>        Win, 'K', MOD_CONTROL | MOD_ALT | MOD_SHIFT | MOD_NOREPEAT, 'K' );
>>>>                   ....
>>>>      if ( Msg.message == WM_HOTKEY && Msg.wParam == 'K' )
>>>>        Launch( L"/Program Files/Common Files/microsoft shared/ink/TabTip.EXE" ),
>>>                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> Things like that are the reason why Windows programs suddenly break when
>>> something is not installed to default location.
>>
>> Are you even able to install microsoft crap in a custom location?
> 
> It's been many years, but if I remember correctly many system folders
> are called differently in different versions of Windows (French,
> Japanese, Chinese, etc.) because their names are translated to native
> language of the user. For example, I'm 100% sure that Desktop and
> Documents folders' names are always translated. I guess Desktop is not
> that important, but Documents folder is the default place where many
> programs keep their files, which mean that they try to access it at the
> startup.
> 
> Even programs that allow custom paths to folders are often break when
> those paths contain non-ASCII characters.
> 
>> Microsoft has been reliant on hard-coded paths since before Windows,
>> and Windows 10 is no different.
> 
then why aren't you using 10

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