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- Form Activator
- ==============
-
- Caution!
- --------
- Since v5.5 RK includes a new activation technique using
- a module from Karl E. Peterson (thanks!)
- If you have no trouble with the activations of any windows,
- you will not need this module. Maybe this option is required
- for W95 user only.
-
-
- Caution!
- --------
- Because the Karl E. Peterson technique work very good, this
- function was removed since v7.3.
- If needed (W95) the last version which includes this module
- (v7.2) will be available to download from www.freewarehits.de
- now and in the future.
- Because the interesting foundation information the following
- description was not removed from this manual.
-
-
-
- For what is the Form Activator needed?
- --------------------------------------
- To understand the necessity of this function it is necessary to
- understand a little about the method how RK works.
- If you click on a button to send something to an application, RK
- has the focus in this moment. Before it starts to send
- something, it must give the focus back to the application where
- the user come from. In the standard mode (if the Form Activation
- function is off) it uses a "set focus" function from a Windows
- operating system library. In many cases this works good but
- there are unfortunately exceptions. These exceptions are that in
- some windows the cursor of input lines is not flashing after the
- window got the focus back.
- A typical example for this behaviour are internet forms, no
- matter if you use Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape
- Navigator.
- The result is that not only one keystroke reaches the input line
- of a html form.
- So the programmer of RK must found alternate methods to activate
- an application because the possibility to fill out forms was a
- central functionality for him and his own use.
-
- --> Note
- The settings for the Form Activator are valid for the session
- only and will not be saved on disk if not specially checked.
- This is to avoid not wanted results in the next session if the
- user did not remember the current setting.
-