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janetb:
Dear Skrommel,

I just found your CAPshift and am delighted with it---something I always wanted! But as someone who does not know anything about scripting, I have two questions:

1. How can I make it open at Startup?
2. For Settings, I only get an .ini file, which is Greek to me....:-(....Do you have to know scripting to set settings?

Forgive me if this site is only for folks who know how to program....

Thanks for any help!
Janet

ewemoa:
I'm not Skrommel, but may be the following will be of some use.

1. How can I make it open at Startup?
-janetb (April 12, 2010, 04:24 AM)
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Does the following sound like your question?

  http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/6085

May be one or some of the answers provided will help -- please mention whether they do or not.

2. For Settings, I only get an .ini file, which is Greek to me....:-(....Do you have to know scripting to set settings?

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As far as I understand, unless you are not satisfied with CAPshift's default behavior, there is no need to modify the settings.

However, the following are my guesses as to what the settings affect (this summary is based on reading the comments in the settings file and direct experimentation).

capslockidle=120

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Roughly speaking, this setting represents the number of seconds to wait before turning off CapsLock (assuming it was already in an "on" state) when the keyboard is idle.  The default value is 120, but it appears you can set it to anything between 0 and 999 inclusive.  However, if the value is set to 0, CapsLock is not automatically turned off -- at least this is how it seemed to me when I tried a value of 0 :)

showstatus=1

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This setting appears to control the displaying of at least two things.  The first is the balloon message which appears above the tray icon for CAPshift.  The balloon message seems to indicate which keys are currently in an "on" state.  The second is the display of a count-down timer indicating how much time is left before the key being pressed switches state (e.g. going from on to off or going from off to on).

The default value for the setting is 1 which means that the two things are displayed.  If the value is changed to 0, neither thing will be displayed.

delayf1=1
delayinsert=1
delayscrolllock=1
delaynumlock=1

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These settings represent the keys which CAPshift "slows down".  The keys that can be affected are:

F1
Insert
ScrollLock
NumLock

The default values are all 1 indicating that all four of the keys are affected -- so CAPShift "slows" all four of them.  If for some reason, you'd not like some or all of the keys to be slowed down, you can set the corresponding values to 0 instead of 1.  For example, if I didn't want my F1 key to be affected, I'd change the corresponding setting to 0:

delayf1=0

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The remaining settings appear to have to do with the "Replace user chars" functionality of CAPshift.  If you don't use the functionality, my guess is that it is safe to leave the corresponding settings alone (or remove them).

BTW, I think that in order for any new settings to take effect, CAPshift may have to be exited once and then started again.

janetb:
Dear ewemoa,

Many thanks for your time.....

Regarding Startup, http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/6085 had a number of incorrect 'answers'....:-)....For example, msconfig only allows you to check or uncheck the relatively few items listed---cannot add new items; and Start at bottom left has no Startup Folder in its menu (at least on my system)....I will just use one of my Autorun programs---I just thought most programs with settings allow you to do this within the program.....

I understood from the .ini file what the options are....just wasn't comfortable with making changes in that manner.....The item I was most interested in was "Replace user chars", which would be very useful to me if it does what I think it does.....

ewemoa:
Regarding Startup, http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/6085 had a number of incorrect 'answers'....:-)
-janetb (April 12, 2010, 08:31 AM)
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Oops -- sorry about that.

I just thought most programs with settings allow you to do this within the program.....

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Aha.  Yes, that certainly sounds reasonable.  I don't believe CAPshift has this capability though.

The item I was most interested in was "Replace user chars", which would be very useful to me if it does what I think it does.....

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I didn't figure out how to use this until just now.  Perhaps you already know, but for what it's worth, here's an example of using it (assuming CAPshift is running and has the default settings):

1. Open notepad or some other editor
2. Type the two letters a and e
3. Select them both
4. Hold down the CapsLock key until the menu pops up
5. Choose the "Replace user chars" menu item

If all goes well, the two letters should be replaced by a single character.

On a side note, I experimented with the settings for replacement and found the following sorts of things work too:

He=Helium
Silver=Ag
Hi=This is some longer text.  There is even more than one line..newline.Neat!

janetb:
ewemoa wrote:
I didn't figure out how to use this until just now.  Perhaps you already know, but for what it's worth, here's an example of using it (assuming CAPshift is running and has the default settings):

1. Open notepad or some other editor
2. Type the two letters a and e
3. Select them both
4. Hold down the CapsLock key until the menu pops up
5. Choose the "Replace user chars" menu item

If all goes well, the two letters should be replaced by a single character.

On a side note, I experimented with the settings for replacement and found the following sorts of things work too:

He=Helium
Silver=Ag
Hi=This is some longer text.  There is even more than one line..newline.Neat!

If I just type 'ae', how does it know what I want it to replace the 'ae' with??

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