Is there a way to control Rosetta Stone with the keyboard?

Question

I'm using the excellent Rosetta Stone for learning German. Problem is, in order to answer its language questions I'm forced to click the correct answer with the dreaded mouse. Is there any way to answer the quizzes using the keyboard?

UPDATE: Screenshot:

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 11 '11 at 12:10

1

I spoke with Rosetta Stone and they said there is no keyboard support for these quizzes.

answered Jul 11 '11 at 12:10

Ram Rachum

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 05 '12 at 22:16

This guy wrote a Python script that adds keyboard shortcuts to the windows version.

import os
import sys
import time
from msvcrt import getch

sys.path.append("../win32automation")

import win32automation

os.system("title KeySetta")
win32automation.spawnProcess(
    r"C:\Program Files\The Rosetta Stone\The Rosetta Stone\TheRosettaStone.exe")
while 1:
    print "Waiting for application to start..."
    result = win32automation.windowFocus("The Rosetta Stone")
    if result:
        print "Window found!"
        break
    time.sleep(1.0)
print "Waiting 5 seconds for login screen to appear..."
time.sleep(5.0)
win32automation.sendKeys('jordanh{ENTER}')

print """
   Keyboard to Mouse Macros Enabled:

     - Answer selection:
       [7] [9]
       [1] [3]

    Please focus this window to enable them...
"""

coord_map = {"7": (180, 300),
             "9": (480, 300),
             "1": (180, 475),
             "3": (480, 475)}

while 1:
    win32automation.windowFocus("KeySetta")
    ch = getch()
    print "Last key pressed: %s\r" % (ch),
    if ch in ('1','3','7','9'):
        win32automation.windowFocus("The Rosetta Stone")
        x, y = coord_map[ch]
        win32automation.mouseMoveToRelative("The Rosetta Stone", x, y)
        win32automation.mouseClick(button="left")
    elif ch.lower() == 'q':
        print "Quitting!"
        break
    else:
        print "WARNING: Unknown key-macro event '%c'." % (ch)

sys.exit()

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 29 '15 at 06:20

With autohotkey you might be able to do that. With this script I am able to pause the screen I've just gone through with the escape key - in order to review new words, for example. (Rosetta makes you click on a tiny pause button, which is not very convenient)

#SingleInstance force
Escape::
{
    MouseGetPos X, Y    
    Click 836, 594 ; use WindowSpy to adjust numbers according to the window size
    MouseMove,  %X%, %Y%
}
return

score -1 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 03 '11 at 21:51

Windows accessibility options allow you to use the keyboard to control the mouse pointer. Maybe this may help if you are suffering from RSI, but the method is rather cumbersome.

It may be worth consulting the application vendor directly, or perhaps seeing if pressing the Tab key on your keyboards potentially offers a way to select an answer. The Tab key is generally the standard way of hopping between interface elements on Windows applications when using the keyboard.

Is there a way to control Rosetta Stone with the keyboard?

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