Hi Rick, If you need to keep WE from speaking, and you're having trouble with onKey events, you could also try blocking the MSAA events associated with the speech. Even if you're working with UIa, WE may be mapping these into MSAA and so using MSAA to cause its speech (as Doug says, WEEvent would show you this).
This is much more often done, and so seems to be what you might call "best practice". hth, Chip _____ From: RicksPlace [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 7:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: WOM Seems Flawed for Keyboard Input Handling Hi Doug: Quick Background: I am creating a script in vb.net 2008 express over vb.net 2010 express. I have filtered so that it will only be started for vb.net 2010 express and that works. I wanted to monitor for Keyboard Input from a user who is working in vb.net 2010 express to stop WE from speaking values when the objects are OffScreen. Also, I needed to stop any execution of a keypress for those OffScreen objects. I wanted to monitor for keyboard input and then suppress speech and move focus to something else or just trap and not pass through the keyboard message to stop execution of the OffScreen object. I have tried OnKeyProcessedDown and OnKeyProcessedUp but got bad results. It seems that if I use OnKeyProcessedUp after OnKeyProcessedDown the OnKeyProcessedUp does not fire within my script. I tried many methods but got the same results. I also have worked with Cursor Keys with invalid results. I then tried the OnKeyUp and OnKeyDown methods of the Keyboard object. Again, I can get the OnKeyDown to work but it is not followed by the OnKeyUp event handler being fired. I forget but some of the tests of OnKeyUp and OnKeyDown have locked up my computer until I ReBoot - I cant get out of vb.net 2010 express since there is no keyboard input at all. There have been so many tests that I cant remember exact test results. I was thinking it might be a timing problem and tried a thread sleep but that had no effect. After reading Bruce's analysis of an Async problem he thinks may exist I looked at Keyboard Input and found that might impact my project, or not, no real way to tell as far as I know. My question would be whether Bruce has found a bug and, if so, could it be impacting my script in Managed Code with all the Marshalling and cross thread processing? Also, If you know of a tool or some way I can track keyboard messages throughout the process I will try and do it since I am guessing you guys are really tied up with something and this is mostely a learning project for me. Thanks: Rick USA
