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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: Karlos on June 28, 2006, 10:54:07 PM
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Hi,
I am wondering what accessibility tools you all might suggest for:
AmigaOS (3.1+)
Linux (KDE desktop)
Windows (sorry)
This couldn't have come at a worse time (serious work commitments) but I have gone and smashed one of the fiddly bones in my left wrist (the scaphoid for the X-Ray types among you) and look to be wearing this damn gypsum gauntlet for quite some time :-(
What would be nice is some tool I could assign a list of commonly typed words to an easy right hand shortcut (thinking numeric pad based here). For coding purposes this would be ideal ;-)
Suggestions?
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:bump:
A bit of experimentation last night led to the conclusion that the good old AmigaOS FKey commodity is near perfect.
Anything like this available for linux?
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If there is then you just know that you're going to have to spend a long time at the command line and editing configuration files in order to get it up and running. ;-)
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I wasted an hour today at work setting up KDE's KHotkeys component of the accessibility options. What a complete pile of sh*t it is. It should come under "inaccessibility options".
Defining a simple hotkey -> text insert requires you to define the text insert as a sequence of key strokes. For example, I wanted the following php skeleton text to be inserted for ctrl-numpad_0
class X {
public function __construct()
{
}
public function __destruct()
{
}
}
You have to define it like this:
C:L:A:S:S:Space:Shift+X:Space:Shift+[:Return:Tab:P:U:B:L:I:C:Space:F:U:N:C:T:I:O:N:.... etc
After developing RSI in my good hand writing this crap, the entire thing was borked anyway. For no apparent reason, it grouped all the fricking duplicated keypresses together in order of first appearence. Eg:
F:U:N:C:T:I:O:N -> funnctio
C:O:N:S:T:R:U:C:T -> conssttru
etc.
Doing all the various system updates made not one iota of difference :lol:
Somebody's idea of a joke?