Capslock

[telephonics]

Thanks to all who replied. For me,being almost blind, i need a system that announces whether caps are on or off and numerals are on or off. Toggle based solutions will not help me witjhou having this audio capability.

[tomos]

Related to this thread -
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=38030.msg356005#msg356005

[tomos]

Telephonics,
on Windows 7, you can set the Capslock and Numberlock to make a sound when changed (high pitch for on, lower pitch for off).

Could that be a solution?

Or could disabling both completely be a solution?

[skwire]

Which operating system are you using?

[eleman]

Attached is a little program I created with some help from the thread Tomos referred to, and Nod5's response there.

The code is below if you need. The exe file in the rar would do the task if you put it in the start-up folder.

Code

; announces capslock and numlock state when pressed.

~Capslock::
{
SoundGet, MasterBeforeMaximize, Master  ; set volume to an audible level, in case it was too low
SoundGet, WaveBeforeMaximize, Wave  ; Don't be rude and get the original volume levels before changing them
SoundSet, 50, Master
SoundSet, 50, Wave
If GetKeyState("CapsLock", "T") = 1
 {
  ComObjCreate("SAPI.SpVoice").Speak("caps on")
  Return
 }
Else
 {
  ComObjCreate("SAPI.SpVoice").Speak("caps off")
  Return
 }
SoundSet, %MasterBeforeMaximize%, Master  ; Restore original volume levels
SoundSet, %WaveBeforeMaximize%, Wave
}
Return

~Numlock::
{
SoundGet, MasterBeforeMaximize, Master  ; set volume to an audible level, in case it was too low
SoundGet, WaveBeforeMaximize, Wave  ; Don't be rude and get the original volume levels before changing them
SoundSet, 50, Master
SoundSet, 50, Wave
If GetKeyState("NumLock", "T") = 1
 {
 ComObjCreate("SAPI.SpVoice").Speak("num on")
 Return
 }
Else
 {
  ComObjCreate("SAPI.SpVoice").Speak("num off")
  Return
 }
SoundSet, %MasterBeforeMaximize%, Master  ; Restore original volume levels
SoundSet, %WaveBeforeMaximize%, Wave
}
Return

[Nod5]

Nice improvement eleman! I didn't think of setting the volume.

[eleman]

Yeah, it comes in handy when you use computer as an alarm clock and forget the sound at a low level.

The maximum sound level is 100 btw. You can change the numbers 50 with a higher one up to 100 to make it more audible if you need so.

[mouser]

I'm going to merge these threads.

[Stoic Joker]

Telephonics,
on Windows 7, you can set the Capslock and Numberlock to make a sound when changed (high pitch for on, lower pitch for off).

Could that be a solution?

Or could disabling both completely be a solution?

Actually ToggleKeys has been around since Windows 2000. But unfortunately it makes the same noise for both enable and disable, and it has a very bad habit of deactivating itself for some odd reason ... Which is why - having a habit of missing shifts and hitting capslock myself - I gave up on using it a few years back.

[tomos]

Actually ToggleKeys has been around since Windows 2000. But unfortunately it makes the same noise for both enable and disable

not here - on Windows 7 -
as said, it makes a "high pitch for on, lower pitch for off"

Obviously the deactivating itself would not be ideal... possibly for that reason, it does have a setting: press numlock key for 5 seconds to activate.

[Stoic Joker]

Actually ToggleKeys has been around since Windows 2000. But unfortunately it makes the same noise for both enable and disable

not here - on Windows 7 -
as said, it makes a "high pitch for on, lower pitch for off"

Yeah, I caught that bit, and back to back it is noticeable. Problem is 5-10 minutes apart I got no idea which beep I'm hearing ...(I should probably mention my hearing sucks)... So I just kind of (mentally) tuned out that part of the feature years ago.

Obviously the deactivating itself would not be ideal... possibly for that reason, it does have a setting: press numlock key for 5 seconds to activate.

I never did figure out what was deactivating it or why, it was just constantly, suddenly not there. But hay WTH, I just enabled it now to see what'll happen this time. Perhaps it will stay on.

[tomos]

Obviously the deactivating itself would not be ideal... possibly for that reason, it does have a setting: press numlock key for 5 seconds to activate.

I never did figure out what was deactivating it or why, it was just constantly, suddenly not there. But hay WTH, I just enabled it now to see what'll happen this time. Perhaps it will stay on.

I was trying to remember all along what it reminds me of - do you remember that real basic tennis video game - the sounds were almost the same for hit and miss :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-THUXZ1aE4

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[Stoic Joker]

Obviously the deactivating itself would not be ideal... possibly for that reason, it does have a setting: press numlock key for 5 seconds to activate.

I never did figure out what was deactivating it or why, it was just constantly, suddenly not there. But hay WTH, I just enabled it now to see what'll happen this time. Perhaps it will stay on.

I was trying to remember all along what it reminds me of - do you remember that real basic tennis video game - the sounds were almost the same for hit and miss :-)

Ah, yes ... I remember Pong well. And after sitting here watching the video and playing with the keyboard for the last 5 minutes, I do believe you're right. They do indeed seem to match perfectly.