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General Discussion / Re: Logitech Harmony API released for developers

« on: February 01, 2015, 03:37:53 PM »

It sure would be nice to be able to control external devices through Harmony hub-based remotes (Smart Control / Ultimate) using voice... Directly via a VC plugin or indirectly via an EG plugin 

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General Discussion / Re: Alt-Tab command not getting triggered

« on: January 29, 2015, 01:37:05 PM »

You can try the non working inputKey.send actions with the VC DXinput plugin, maybe this will work for you.

I doubt it is going to work as it seems to be an issue with Windows 8 and not VC per se.

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General Discussion / Re: Alt-Tab command not getting triggered

« on: January 29, 2015, 01:15:05 PM »

As a workaround to Alt-Tab, Alt-Esc can be used. It enables you to cycle through all the open windows, albeit in one direction only

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General Discussion / Re: Alt-Tab command not getting triggered

« on: January 29, 2015, 10:36:17 AM »

If this was indeed UAC related, wouldn't this action prompt for a dialog asking the user for confirmation (when triggered via VC)?

A quick test would be to keep UAC setting to default in Windows 7 and then trigger the command via VC. If it works, then there is something else that is blocking this command to run on Windows 8.

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General Discussion / Re: Alt-Tab command not getting triggered

« on: January 29, 2015, 10:09:15 AM »

I disagree with this completely.  There is a big difference between a user choosing to perform critical actions on a computer and a program being able to do it autonomously.  From a security standpoint there is a clear black and white difference between the two scenarios.

Point taken.

I just tried disabling UAC and running VC explicitly as an admin, but still no luck with running the command.

I will do some more research to see if there is a way around this.

Thanks

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General Discussion / Re: Alt-Tab command not getting triggered

« on: January 29, 2015, 09:26:25 AM »

Hi James,

Ctrl-Alt-Tab manually works, but not when configured in VC via the InputKeys.Send action.

Weird you mention that Ctrl-Alt-Del is blocked by Windows, as ideally the OS should not care whether the input is given manually or as a simulated command via InputKeys.Send action.

If this is indeed the case, then I believe that Ctrl-Alt-Tab (and Alt-Tab for that matter) is also being blocked by Windows. The command shows up in VC's history tab when it is executed, but the corresponding action does not get triggered.

Other combinations do work as I mentioned in my initial post.

Thanks

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General Discussion / Alt-Tab command not getting triggered

« on: January 29, 2015, 12:30:36 AM »

All,

I am trying to configure VC to trigger the Alt-Tab command using InputKeys.Send action, but for some reason the command is not getting triggered. Similar behaviour is being observed for Ctrl-Alt-Del command as well.

I have tried to work with other key combinations such as {CONTROL+ESCAPE} (activates the start menu) and {CONTROL+SHIFT+ESCAPE} (activates task manager), which seem to work without any issues.

I have referred to the examples for InputKeys.Send action and tried the following key combinations:

{ALT+TAB}
{ALT}({TAB})

Similar key combinations have been tried for Ctrl-Alt-Del command as well without any success.

Any idea what could be the reason behind this behaviour?

I am using Windows 8.1. Please let me know if any other information is required.

Thanks in advance!