t.s.lim Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 HI, WinXP uses Alt-Tab to cycle through running applications, Alt-Space for poping up properties menu and so on. While many applications are running under WinXP, say active/current application is ABC, I wish that when I press Alt-Space instead of poping the properties menu for ABC, the Alt-Space is passed as normal keystroke to ABC. Can ME help in this case? t.s.lim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 Sure. Create a macro with a HotKey activation of Alt+Space and use the Text Type command to type whatever you want instead of Alt+Space. You could use the Scope property so this macro will only run when application ABC has focus and Alt+Space will work normally for all other applications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t.s.lim Posted May 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 Hi kevin, But what I want is such that ABC will receive the keystroke "Alt-Space" not other keystroke combination. i.e. I want Alt-Sapce being received by ABC instead of being intercept by window to pop the properties menu for ABC... Well what happen if I TEXT TYPE again Alt-Space?? Isn't that a nested call to the same macro? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t.s.lim Posted May 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 HI, I have tried and has scope Alt-space to ABC. The text type Alt-Space from the macro pop the properties menu... Ah, I am hopeless... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t.s.lim Posted May 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 Hi, I wish I can set the scope to "Global except" where WinXP will be the one exception ... May be I should make a suggestion to this scope setting... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t.s.lim Posted May 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 Hi Kevin, Thanks for your suggestion! Even though it does not directly solve my problem, but I get an inspiration from you and I come up with a solution. First, in application ABC, I assign such that another Keystroke say Ctl+Shift+Y for the action I want, then I use ME to intercept Alt-Space and TEXT TYPE the Ctl+Shift+Y. Ha, ha, now whenever ABC is running and Alt-Space is pressed, ABC will do what I want Again, thanks for your help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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