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