Interesting, Steve. ... Well, I guess I'm telling you what I know at
this point, but the "pass through" option might be worth looking into more.
73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: question on Jaws with a laptop
> I would suspect it is, Tom. Actually, I'm surprised subsequent taps of
the CL
> key actually turns caps lock on and off. I'd think an easier way to do
that is
> pass the next key through to the application with caps-loc f3, then hit
the caps
> loc key. Actually, the caps loc key in the laptop configuration is like
hitting
> the insert key on a desktop. It is the jaws key, but by itself it has no
> effect. You need to hit it with colon, left bracket, etc. to access the
Jaws
> functions.
>
> Steve, K8SP
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 1:48 PM
> Subject: question on Jaws with a laptop
>
>
> Hi, again, everyone.
>
> I have discovered an interesting little quirk with my Dell Lattitude 610
> laptop that my University purchased for me last year. On this laptop, I
use
> Jaws 7.0, and the operating system is Windows XP Pro.
>
> I have noticed that the caps lock key doesn't always go into "caps lock"
> with the first push of the key.
>
> In fact, it seems to do so on about every other tap.
>
> Does this have something to do with the fact that we use the capslock key
on
> a laptop with Jaws to toggle between the Jaws and PC cursors, and to
toggle
> between jaws to PC, and PC to Jaws?
>
> The toggling functions seem to work very well with just one push of the
caps
> lock key, but I have to hit it at least one more time to get the caps lock
> itself to engage.
>
> I have had absolutely no other problems with any of the other keys on the
> key-board, which is what is making me believe that this has something to
do
> with the dual functionality of the capslock key when using Jaws.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts anyone can give on this.
>
> 73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>
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