It would often be quite helpful to have hardware Shift- and Control-
buttons, esp. when one wants to select multiple items in lists with the pen
(to be able to pick multiple individual items as well as ranges). Not all
prgm's are sufficiently pen-aware and offer lists with selection checkboxes
as eg. Vista's Explorer.

The control field on my MotionComputing LE 1700 tablet has a little applet
to assign misc. actions (like starting arbitrary programs) or special key
combinations to the available HW buttons, alas, with the notable exception
of "Shift" and "Control". These two keys one can apparently only assign in
combination with others (e.g. Shift-Tab or Ctrl-Enter) but not as individual
keypresses.

Has anyone an idea how one could "trick" that applet or are there other
utilities that would allow to achieve this, so one could press one of the HW
buttons while selecting list items with the pen?

Michael

Oops, I wrong NG. Sorry!