It would often be quite helpful to have hardware Shift- and Control-
buttons, esp. when one wants to select multiple items in lists with
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

The tip keyboard shift/ctrl/alt keys are "sticky"

Tap the shift key in the tip, them use the pen the same way you would
with your finger on the matching hardware key.

As far as utilities or penstrokes to do the same, not aware of any.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev] wrote:
> The tip keyboard shift/ctrl/alt keys are "sticky"
>
> Tap the shift key in the tip, them use the pen the same way you would
> with your finger on the matching hardware key.
>
> As far as utilities or penstrokes to do the same, not aware of any.
>
> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

Yes, that's the only "workaround" I found so far, too. But I find that a
bit cumbersome. I have to bring up the TIP, switch it to keyboard (since
mine is usally on handwriting), hit the shift or control button and only
then one can start selecting... And after the selection reverse all
that...

Hoped, there might be something a bit more user friendly...

Cheers,
Michael

Try freeware miniscroller.

"Michael Moser" wrote:

> Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev] wrote:
> > The tip keyboard shift/ctrl/alt keys are "sticky"
> >
> > Tap the shift key in the tip, them use the pen the same way you would
> > with your finger on the matching hardware key.
> >
> > As far as utilities or penstrokes to do the same, not aware of any.
> >
> > Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]
>
> Yes, that's the only "workaround" I found so far, too. But I find that a
> bit cumbersome. I have to bring up the TIP, switch it to keyboard (since
> mine is usally on handwriting), hit the shift or control button and only
> then one can start selecting... And after the selection reverse all
> that...
>
> Hoped, there might be something a bit more user friendly...
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
>
>
>

Used to be possible in XP but not in Vista, now Ctrl alone can be assigned
but not Shift...
I have to say : I wish some MVPs took the dive and found something on that
one...

>> I wish some MVPs took the dive and found something on that
one... <<

That statement assumes that MVP's are somehow different from other users
and posters here.

Any assumption that ms listens to mvps more than other users is
incorrect... in my experience, if anything, user problems presented by
mvp's have even less value that those presented by other users.

Despite a few recent posts, the ms tablet team has proven to be one of
the more reclusive and unresponsive departments within the soundproof
walls of microsoft.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev] wrote:
>>
>
> Despite a few recent posts, the ms tablet team has proven to be one of
> the more reclusive and unresponsive departments within the soundproof
> walls of microsoft.

I guess, they took the "usual" business decision: if there is no
(immediate) large gain visible, why should they spend a dime?
Probably there isn't anybody left working on tablet-SW...

Michael