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zsims / hunt-and-peck

Simple vimium/vimperator style navigation for Windows applications based on the UI Automation framework.
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Can't get overlay window to come up? #13

Closed randylewis7 closed 6 years ago

randylewis7 commented 6 years ago

Hello, again I apologize if I am missing something obvious, but I can't get this to do anything. I am running the executable on windows 7. It's definitely running--I can see it in the taskbar. But pressing alt + doesn't bring up any overlay window. Am I getting the shortcut right? I am pressing the alt key and the +/= key at the same time. I tried both alt keys, and various cominations with ctrl and shift as well. Alt by itself brings up some vim like prompts in a few Microsoft programs, but I'm pretty sure this is built into the program.

I have tried this in microsoft word, paint, google chrome, the file browser, and netbeans. I also switched the mode back and forth between overlay and keyboard, which doesn't change anything.

Thanks again!

zsims commented 6 years ago

Try Alt and ;

randylewis7 commented 6 years ago

That worked, thanks! And this looks like exactly what I was looking for. Good job!

zsims commented 6 years ago

Cheers! Not every program implements the UI automation patterns correctly. The API can also be very slow. Let me know how you go!

randylewis7 commented 6 years ago

Will do! I did notice it's slightly laggy, but not enough to be a big deal. Still much faster than the mouse.