[RWP] AutoHotKey A Few HotSpots

[David P Shortland]

Hi Indigo

I was just wondering, was it you who mentioned a little while back, that you 
had sighted assistance in finding a little icon or something that opened the 
Extended Recording Options?

When I had Elizabeth (my partner) looking over the screen the other day to 
help get the co-ordinates for this menu, she was not able to see any other 
thing that could be clicked that opened that menu...perhaps it was just poor 
guidance on my part.

The co-ordinates are aimed almost at the centre of the VU Meters on each 
Trak.

So, I have started now and if anyone has requests of what could be looked 
for and perhaps HotKeyed up, let me know and I will see what I can do...

Take care all

David P Shortland
DragonScore Productions

-----Original Message----- 
From: Indigo
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 8:53 PM
To: Reapers Without Peepers
Subject: Re: [RWP] AutoHotKey A Few HotSpots

Hi David,
Thanks for the coordinates.
I currently need to hit the ctrl+up arrow workAround twice to get the
applications key extended recording options menu to display; but if
future versions of Reaper break that fix entirely; I'll be using your
coordinates for sure.
It's great that you're now using Auto Hot Key for day to day ReaAccess
issues.
I haven't begun studying AHK yet, but I'm beginning to comprehend what
is needed to get access to some VST synths; like simple clicks on
buttons are not always enough.
I had assistance from a simple macro way back in the Atari days, so I
understand how macros  work to record mouse actions.
For Instance, in Alchemy Player the sighted user needs to drag and drop;
first finding a white border around Preset variation number 1; that
selects number 1; then dragging that border to the other variations 2
through 8; in order to trigger the other variations of the preset sound.
I'd need to have 7 or 8 AHK shortcuts just to trigger the 8 preset
variations.
There are still some keyboard shortcuts that aren't yet used, by either
Reaper itself or ReaAccess.
Also, I believe, AHK separates the left and right control keys as
separate modifier keys for shortcuts, providing a bunch more available
shortcuts.
Note that Reaper itself has quite a few shortcuts at the numPad separate
from ReaAccess shortcuts; that we might be using now, if we only learn
them, so watch out for conflicts at the numPad.

I've only run into 1 numPad conflict so far, a Wineyes shortcut to speak
screen coordinates that triggers a standard Reaper shortcut; so I
changed the Wineyes shortcut.

The closer I get to making my own access shortcuts the more I respect
what programmers are running into with access issues, like all those
interface heirarkies, or overlapping interface  elements, that I hear
about from Steve Spamer in Kontakt.
Glad you chose AHK, so we all can benefit, whatever screenreader we use.
Indi




On 3/7/2013 1:13 AM, David P Shortland wrote:
> Hi & Greetings from a drying out Sunshine Coast
>
> Thought I would share this with anyone who may be interested
>
> As I am charting my way thru the  Help files of AutoHotKey and learning to 
> Script this and that, well mainly for Omnisphere at present,  here are a 
> couple of co-ordinates that may be of helpin REAPER,  with regards to a 
> Certain Menu not opening with Apps Key & Up Arrow key
>
> These co-ordinates will give access to a menu that will be spoken and 
> contains settings for Audio & MIDI Inputs & Outputs.
>
> 136, 176 is for Trak 1
> 136, 276 is for Trak 2
>
> Now for those of us who may be a little apprehensive in trying to write a 
> script to access these co-ordinates,here its is...
>
> Open up Notepad and type these lines as is, or just copy them across..
>
> Numpad9 & Numpad1:: Click 136, 176
> Numpad9 & Numpad2:: Click 136, 276
>
> Save this document as AutoHotKey.ahk
>
> Go to the directory where you just saved that script
>
> Double Click on the file and it should ask you with what file do you wish 
> to run the program?
>
> Navigate to AutoHotKey and voila ... all should be good
>
> Okay, just remember that the resolution on my System is 768 x 1024 , so 
> one can deduce that if your resolution is different the co-ordinates will 
> not match.
>
> Now all you have to do when REAPER is open and you have several tracks in 
> place
>
> Press Numpad9 (hold it down and Press Numpad1 the Menu should open, make 
> yourselections
>
> Remember that this combination is for Trak 1.
>
> I have also used the Numpad as ReaAccess and REAPER use a lot of keyboard 
> combinations and this should not interfere.
>
> Oh yes... DO NOT forget to press the NumLock .. it must be ON!
>
> I have only given the co-ordinates for two trax, because I figure if you 
> want to set up several combinations of In & Outs, just coply one of the 
> tracks to another place.
>
> Hopefully all will go smoothly... if not...I have left the country and 
> gone into hiding...
>
> Take care all
>
> David P Shortland
> DragonScore Productions
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