[Tweeters] quasi-off-topic question re AviSys shortcut keys (long)

[Stephen Elston via Tweeters]

Does this help you?
https://superuser.com/questions/1549617/shortcut-to-toggle-f1-f12-function-keys-on-lenovo-yoga-lenovo-vantage#:~:text=1%20Answer&text=Save%20this%20answer.,square%20in%20the%20image%20below).&text=Thank%20you!,solution%20before%20finding%20your%20answer.


Regards, Steve

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 9:59 AM Gary Bletsch via Tweeters <
tweeters at u.washington.edu> wrote:


> Dear Tweeters,

>

> This is a somewhat recondite question for anyone in the Tweeterverse who

> is still using AviSys bird listing software.

>

> Once again, an HP laptop of mine has begun to fail after a relatively

> short time, so I've bought a new laptop, a Lenovo Yoga 7. I'm not too

> impressed with their online support, which seems to consist mainly of links

> to YouTube videos.

>

> I have AviSys up and running just fine on the new machine, but I've

> realized that the laptop does not have the same keyboard as my previous

> ones. The new keyboard appears to have the same quantity of keys, but the

> function keys in the top row have different labels. The four keys in the

> top-right corner have different functions from the functions of those keys

> on my last two HP laptops. The new functions are all geared toward either

> gaming or media.

>

> There are just three functions that I am missing when using AviSys, and

> would like to get them going.

>

> 1. The handiest of these was CTRL + f11. This is a shortcut that lets the

> AviSys user get an instant list of all of his sightings of one species. For

> example, right now, on my old HP laptop--on which everything works except

> for Internet access--I have the Chestnut-backed Chickadee highlighted.

> Simply by pressing CTRL + f11, AviSys gives me all 2506 of my lifetime

> sightings of this species. Without this shortcut, I have to go to List

> Records, Species, put CBCH in there, then click D for date, L for list, and

> then hit Enter, just to get a chronological list of those 2506 sightings.

> That is way too much work, compared to CTRL + f11.

>

> 2 and 3. The other two functions involve moving through lists of data, or

> List Records in AviSys parlance. For example, when I bring up a list all of

> those 2506 records of CBCH, I often want to go to the last record. On every

> previous laptop I've owned, all I had to do was press CTRL + end, and I go

> right to the last record in the set. If I want to go back up to the very

> first record again, I would press CTRL + home, and I am taken right back to

> that first Chestnut-backed Chickadee that I saw in 1978. So easy!

>

> There are two other functions that work similarly, CTRL + pg up, and CTRL

> + pg dn, but those are two that I rarely used, since they are not much

> different in efficiency than just pressing the up or down arrow, in order

> to move to the top or bottom of one page, which contains just 10 of those

> 2506 records.

>

> Well, I did a little reading online about this sort of thing. One website

> suggests that one use a program called Auto Hotkey. However, another

> website stated that Auto Hotkey leaves a computer more vulnerable to

> hacking.

>

> Several other websites recommended Microsoft Power Toys. That is a free

> product of Microsoft itself, so I'd feel safer using that. It is a program

> for "Power Users," a level of expertise that I don't claim even to

> approach.

>

> I have now installed Microsoft Power Toys, but I can't really understand

> the complicated instructions. I have tried to follow them, but the results

> have been zero.

>

> If anyone has any tips on making this work, I'd love to hear them.

>

> Yours truly,

>

> Gary Bletsch

>

> PS obligatory bird sighting for this e-mail is a flock of six Chipping

> Sparrows at my feeder just now!

>

>

>

>

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