RE: [UACCESS-L] right click

[Robert Carnegie <Robert.Carnegie@seemis.com>]

AIUI, Trace pretty much invented the accessibility tools built into Windows 95(?) and later, including "MouseKeys".  You may need to visit "Control Panel / Add and Remove Software" to install the accessibility components from the original Windows CD.  Then the components can be switched on and off from their own Control Panel icon.  You can also place a shortcut to a Control Panel item on the desktop, and from there move it into the Start menu.

 

If MouseKeys is switched on, Windows 98SE's Help says that

 

"To click (for example, on a menu command), press 5 on your numeric keypad.
"To double-click, press the PLUS SIGN (+) on your numeric keypad.
"To right-click, press the MINUS SIGN (–) on your numeric keypad, and then press 5 to click, or press the PLUS SIGN (+) to "double-click.
"To click as if you were using both mouse buttons at once, press the ASTERISK (*) on your numeric keypad, and then press 5 to click or the PLUS SIGN (+) to double-click.
"To switch back to standard clicking, press SLASH (/) on your numeric keypad."

 

Actually this is kind of confusing to me, although the software that I've written for my own small access problem would probably be difficult to justify in a few words, too.  But I pick out that you type "-5" on the number pad to make the MouseKeys software do a right-click.

 

And evidently the numeric pad cursor keys move the MouseKeys mouse, I presume the cursor keys on the 101-key keyboard don't, and Home End PageUp PageDown make diagonal movements.

 

Other mouse/keyboard software is still available, free or free-trial, from such places as http://shareware.cnet.com/ and http://www.tucows.com/ , if MouseKeys' comprehensive range of features doesn't meet your specific need.

 

Alternatively, someone on this list can probably amplify my simple observation that if a second pointing controller, for instance an additional USB mouse, is fitted, then control of the pointer is shared.  So your client could buy an inexpensive extra mouse (or whatever else they're getting instead of the mouse), take the ball out, and park it right next to the keyboard, just to provide a convenient right-click button.

 

If the keyboard doesn't have a convenient numeric keypad, then they can be bought separately, too.

 

Alternatively again, a SerialKey device - meaning any device that has a serial port and can be programmed to send arbitrary strings out of it - can issue mouse commands, although I never got around to trying that out and now I'm pursuing another option.  The relevant commands probably would be "move the mouse pointer to these decimal screen co-ordinates" and "right-click", but I don't have the details to hand.

 

Specifically, I'm working with a pen tablet and the free RemoteKeys software from http://www.freewarehits.de/ , which I see just went to version 8.6 two weeks ago.  In the 8.5 that I'm using, this is pretty tricky to get working just as you want, and when I last looked half of the documentation was in German, but I think it can be made to send a message to a named application on request or even on a timer, "message" in this case probably including "move mouse" and "right-click".  So it could do what you want, although I'm not in fact sure that it can be controlled by the keyboard?...(My solution to that is that RemoteKeys /is/ my keyboard, ninety per cent of the time.)

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sharon and Robert [mailto:dalfen@netvision.net.il]
Sent: 30 January 2003 20:15
To: uaccess-l@trace.wisc.edu
Subject: [UACCESS-L] right click

Hello,

 

My client needs to right click to have her voice synthesizer read back the phrase that she just typed. It is hard for her to use the mouse, (it will soon be replaced) in the meanwhile, does anyone know how to make a key equivalent for a right click so she can do this from the keyboard.

 

Thank you,

Sharon

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