Keyboard shortcuts stop working

Michael Zaichenko biozaichenko at hotmail.com
Fri Sep 21 10:13:02 PDT 2007



I solved it by assigning different hotkey to each languages. I.e. Turkish - Ctrl+Alt+1, Greek - Ctrl+Alt+2, etc. this can be done with regular keyboard settings tool in XP.
Michael

> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:39:26 -0500
> From: acarrico at adamsglobalization.com
> To: srogers at phoenix-geophysics.com
> CC: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: Keyboard shortcuts stop working
> 
> How the heck do you make it stop doing this, though???  I've used the "Advanced Keyboard Settings" to turn off the keyboard shortcuts for switching languages at least 150 times, and it always turns itself back on.  Is the only solution to uninstall the non-English input languages?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces+acarrico=adamsglobalization.com at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+acarrico=adamsglobalization.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Stuart Rogers
> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 9:38 AM
> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Keyboard shortcuts stop working
> 
> Diane Gaskill wrote:
> > 
> > The keyboard shortcut to switch languages was set to Left Alt Shift
> > and I apparently was hitting those keys without realizing it.  Next
> > time it happens, try that key combination and see if it switches
> > back.  If not, click Settings >Control Panel > Regional and Language
> > Settings > Details and turn off all the languages except English.
> > 
> 
> I have experienced the same thing.  I use the Alt key a lot to activate 
> menu choices.  In Framemaker, that can make for inadvertent language 
> changes when trying to activate the Shift menus -- to get File > Save 
> All Open Files, or Graphics > Pick Up Object Properties, for example.
> 
> Photoshop is prone to the same problem, as the Shift and Alt keys are 
> used in many shortcuts.  I've just come to expect it from time to time, 
> and am no longer surprised when my dialog box entries suddenly appear in 
> Cyrillic :-)
> 
> sr
> 
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> Stuart Rogers
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> Phoenix Geophysics Limited
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> 
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