PauloH Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Hello, First and foremost I'm a great fan of Auto-it. Recently i was given the task of trying to trigger the sticky key feature (pressing 5 times Shift button) as a part of a disability feature application. Not all of our users can use the freely mouse, so we've grown a need to trigger sticky keys my pressing shift 5 times. I've explored different solutions, but partially pure stubbornness i want to make this work. I've tried without any success: 1 - Looping 5 times and more Send("{SHIFTDOWN 1}") Sleep(500) Send("{SHIFTUP 1}") 2 - Send("{LSHIFT 5}") This commands seems to work, but it won't trigger the sticky key feature Was wondering if anyone could give me some input and toss me some ideas on how to accomplish this. Thanks for any help. -- Don't feed your cat anything that clashes with the carpet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloH Posted May 11, 2013 Author Share Posted May 11, 2013 (edited) Thanks for the input, helps some, but i am looking for for the "Sticky Keys" pop up windows that gets specifically triggered by pressing Shift 5 times. I need this "Sticky Keys" windows to open immediately after certain users lock their workstation. The only way i know is to press shift 5 times, and holding shift for over 8 seconds. Was wondering by leveraging Auto-it i could trigger this Sticky Keys window almost instantly after desktop lock. Thanks~ Edited May 11, 2013 by PauloH -- Don't feed your cat anything that clashes with the carpet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PauloH Posted May 12, 2013 Author Share Posted May 12, 2013 Thank you very much for your input. No solution for this one. -- Don't feed your cat anything that clashes with the carpet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrewManNH Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 You can turn on specific StickyKey settings using _WinAPI_SystemParametersInfo and $SPI_SETSTICKYKEYS as the first parameter and a structure to turn on/off the features you want, in the third parameter. Unfortunately I don't know how to do this exactly myself, but perhaps someone with more knowledge can use this link and this link to help. If I posted any code, assume that code was written using the latest release version unless stated otherwise. Also, if it doesn't work on XP I can't help with that because I don't have access to XP, and I'm not going to.Give a programmer the correct code and he can do his work for a day. Teach a programmer to debug and he can do his work for a lifetime - by Chirag GudeHow to ask questions the smart way! I hereby grant any person the right to use any code I post, that I am the original author of, on the autoitscript.com forums, unless I've specifically stated otherwise in the code or the thread post. If you do use my code all I ask, as a courtesy, is to make note of where you got it from. Back up and restore Windows user files _Array.au3 - Modified array functions that include support for 2D arrays. - ColorChooser - An add-on for SciTE that pops up a color dialog so you can select and paste a color code into a script. - Customizable Splashscreen GUI w/Progress Bar - Create a custom "splash screen" GUI with a progress bar and custom label. - _FileGetProperty - Retrieve the properties of a file - SciTE Toolbar - A toolbar demo for use with the SciTE editor - GUIRegisterMsg demo - Demo script to show how to use the Windows messages to interact with controls and your GUI. - Latin Square password generator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Robertson Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 You need to use a physical input device to trigger the "hotkey" because sticky keys is ONLY for users with disabilities who need assistance with the keyboard and not for programs that simulate input. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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