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My weapon of choice at the moment is an HP OMEN laptop gaming thing. I don't game, but it had the best spec available in Cyprus at the time my old machine started playing up. The HP is great, apart from it having a US keyboard. No matter, it has six gaming keys on the left that I can run keyboard macros from. I have always had one of them set up for my clipboard manager, but that is all.
On one of my screens I have a yellow sticky for several Alt + sequences that I frequently use for £, €, ° etcetera. So why not allocate them to a key?
Can't be done - just about every key on the keyboard has an up and down action for a macro, but not, of course, for the Alt key, just an up action.
OK - let's use Unicode type the code and hit Alt + X, Nope - no Alt down action.
No problem there's the spacebar solution. What? It's Alt + spacebar? Well, who knew!
Would it have been so damned hard to provide an action down on the Alt key?
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Mines the Omen 17 - Core i7, 3.6GHz, 24GB RAM, 500GB SSD, 1 TB HDD. Actually a very nice machine performance-wise but I am annoyed about this stupid no-down-action on the Alt key, when every other key bar special keys has a down action.
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You might be able to get around this using AutoHotKey. It's been a while since I played with it, but here's a script I concocted to enable double-clicking on the destkop background to give the Winkey->Tab action:
; adapted from http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/44915/how-to-change-window-transparency-in-windows-7/
; ^ = ctrl
; ! = alt
; + = shift
; ~ = just pass the keystroke on to other programs
; # = Windows key
~LButton::
if (A_PriorHotKey = A_ThisHotKey) and (A_TimeSincePriorHotkey < 500)
{
if _DesktopBlankSpot()
Send #{Tab}
}
return
_DesktopBlankSpot()
{
LVM_GETSELECTEDCOUNT := 0x1000 + 50
WinGetClass, Class, A
if (Class != "WorkerW") and (Class != "Progman")
return false
handle := WinExist("A")
handle := DllCall("GetWindow","Ptr",handle,"Uint",5,"Ptr")
if (! handle)
return false
handle := DllCall("GetWindow","Ptr",handle,"Uint",5,"Ptr")
if (! handle)
return false
SendMessage,%LVM_GETSELECTEDCOUNT%,0,0,,ahk_id %handle%
return (! ErrorLevel) ; nothing selected = clicked on blank spot
}
If you go down that route, here's another one I made to simulate key presses when the mouse is over things in a planetarium program I used a lot in the past. I don't guarantee it is error free, but should get you started on the nomenclature used to handle 'Alt' and such. The '< h1 >'s should just be a "#" at the beginning of the line - CPs autochanger is messing that up.
; ^ = ctrl
; ! = alt
; + = shift
; ~ = just pass the keystroke on to other programs
; # = Windows key
SetTitleMatchMode, 2
<h1>IfWinActive CyberSky 4</h1>
^r::Send !dtd ;Ctl R Sunrise
^s::Send !dtk ;Ctl S Sunset
!r::Send {Tab}!dtd ;Alt-R Next Sunrise
!s::Send {Tab}!dtk ;Alt-S SUNSET, NEXT STEP
+r::Send +{Tab}!dtd ;Shift-R PREVIOUS SUNRISE
+s::Send +{Tab}!dtk ;Shift-S PREVIOUS SUNSET
^+s::Send !dss ;Ctl-Shift-S Set to vernal equinox
t::send !dt ;T Open twilight box
d::send !tl ;D DATE
^w::send !dsw ;Ctl-T Go to winter solstice
;The following will use the object under the mouse to complete the action:
+RButton:: ;Right button and 'Shift' - set to object's rise time:
{
Send {RButton}
Send {Down}
Send {Down}
Send {Down}
Send {Down}
Send {Down}
Send {Enter}
Send r
return
}
^RButton:: ;Right button and 'Ctrl' - set to object's set time:
{
Send {RButton}
Send {Down}
Send {Down}
Send {Down}
Send {Down}
Send {Down}
Send {Enter}
Send s
return
}
^+RButton:: ;Right button and 'Ctrl' + 'Alt' - Open up object's property dialog:
{
Send {RButton}
Send {Down}
Send {Down}
Send {Down}
Send {Down}
Send {Down}
Send {Enter}
return
}
<h1>IfWinActive Adobe Acrobat Standard</h1>
#c::send !vlc ;c - Set to continuous page layout
#2::send !vlt ;2 - set to 2 page continuous layout
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Thanks for that. I shall download and have a play.
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So far, I've had two ask for the best time to call me, to which I gladly responded. One even told he'd be calling that evening. (I'm 6 - 8 hours "ahead" of all of them, so my evening is their afternoon.)
So, did either of them call? No, of course not.
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They probably saw your avatar on CodeProject
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That should make them afraid to...disappoint me.
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It's not just recruiters. I answered a craig's list ad for musicians the other day and received a reply : "sounds great, I'll call you tonight." Of course, they never called and it's been weeks now. I chalked up to just another flaky musician.
This has happened to me with recruiters and HR types also. It seems rudeness is running rampant.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I requested information on a possible mortgage refinance on my mortgage - including from my own mortgage company via their website. They said they would contact me within 24 hours to discuss it. So far I have had about 17 calls about refinancing - none of them from my own mortgage company.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Chairlift - Bruises[^]
An old favorite of mine.
Maybe it's been SOTW before, but I'm not sure.
YouTube recommended it to me this week, so I listened.
And then again and again and again, just like old times
The easy electro-pop sound is quite addictive.
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Catchy tune! Here's a new take on an old one you may like, that might get this out of your head: White Rabbit. Don't think it's been posted before. Or maybe you pointed it out - don't remember.
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Celebration with a beverage as white as milk. (7)
modified 9-Aug-19 4:41am.
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Galatea
Galatea is greek for "she who is milk-white"
Gala - celebration
Tea - beverage
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Yep. Monday is yours.
Just to point out the theme, Galatea is one of Neptune's moons.
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I was trying to shoehorn "Calypso" in there ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Won't turn on, won't charge, does nothing at all. I'm just guessing here, but I think the charge circuit is dead.
It's only two and a half years old! I guess that's what you get with Chinese cheapies ...
Now what do I replace it with? I've got really used to having Windows 10 available, and capable of running my apps, so I'm reluctant to get a big Android tablet, and Linux is a waste of disk space if you want to do anything serious as you end up with everything running in VM anyway...
There's the Surface, but that price! Ouch!
I've also got used to touch screen, so lappie with a touchpad is not really much use either (I don't get on a those - and I keep hitting them when I type).
Suggestions, anybody?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: There's the Surface, but that price! Ouch!
What about "that price"?
I've purchased 3 4 Android tablets over the years, and today they're all pretty much abandonware - still open to vulnerabilities that have been known and patched on other platforms years ago. Would I dare make a credit card purchase online or my banking using one of them today? No, and hell no.
Given the amount of money I've spent wasted on Android by now, I could've bought a Surface. In fact that's exactly what I did, and even my first-gen Surface Pro is still to this day getting every single last update MS is producing, so it's not any less safe than any other instance of Windows 10.
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Seconded. The Surface is a solid product, and it's not like the price is in iThing range.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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