Some very strange behaviour with KM that has just started - any ideas?

I noticed a problem with a macro that I have set that does a login by focusing on two form fields and then inserting text by typing. Today, it stopped working - I can see the fields receiving focus but nothing is pasted.

I tested the same macro on other computers and it's fine on those. So I created a VERY simple macro that inserts text by typing when a type a string. That is also failing.

Trigger - typed string !test
Macros:
Insert text by typing: test (simulate 5 deletes)
Display text briefly: test

It is running the display text macro but is ignoring the insert text one (and also not deleting).

Very weird behaviour.

Furthermore, when setting up this test macro it would also not allow me to set a hot key for it - as in when I try to set that hot key it's not recording it. And if I use a hot key that is already set up for other macros in KM, it's actually bringing up the conflict palette for that hotkey, which it should not do while running KM and setting the hotkey.

What on earth could be happening here?

Sounds like either "Access for Assistive Devices" has got turned off or you've run into the "Secure Input Mode" problem. There are fixes/links for both on the Wiki, here for the first and here for the second. There's also a bunch of forum posts to help with the "Secure Input Mode" issue -- try searching for "secure input".

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