Activating Mouse Keys with Autoit

[CodyR 0]

I have been trying to use the send command to turn on Mouse Keys, but I'm not having any luck. I have used:

Send("{LALT}{LSHIFT}{NUMLOCK on}"); //also off, toggle

Send("!+{NUMLOCK on");//also off, toggle

Any better way to do this. Left Shift+ Left Alt + Numlock works normally...

Thanks

[wakillon 398]

Did you try simply :

Send ( "{NUMLOCK off}" ) or Send ( "{NUMLOCK on}" ) ?

[Blue_Drache 258]

Why not nose about in the registry? I have my mouse-keys shut off. And for a reason. I can't tell you how many times I've been playing a game and hit shift several times in a row, or ctrl, or whatever... Windows pops up and says "OH HAI! I AM PAPERCLIP!! YOU SUMMONED ME!!" ... often stealing focus from a full-screen application.

Tweaking a setting inside the registry is much more elegant than brute-forcing it with SEND()

Edited May 8, 2011 by Blue_Drache

[CodyR 0]

The registry thing would probably work; I'm going to investigate that. Right now I am using this thing called "Mouse Emulator" and just "taskkill"ing it when I don't need it.

I'd still like to know the more general answer of why this doesn't work; it seems pretty elegant to me just to send the hotkey that toggles it on/off instead of sending .reg files back and forth.

Anyway, thinks.