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## Summary of the Pull Request Makes the **Press and hold the letter** activation method exclusive. Pressing a legacy trigger key (Space or either arrow) before the hold threshold now cancels that owner-letter gesture and passes the trigger through normally, instead of allowing the already-scheduled picker to appear later. Typing any different supported physical letter during the gesture also cancels it, preventing that intervening character from being replaced when the owner letter is released. Space and arrow navigation remains available after a genuine hold activation reaches its threshold. ## PR Checklist - [ ] Closes: N/A - [x] **Communication:** I've discussed this with core contributors already. If the work hasn't been agreed, this work might be rejected - [x] **Tests:** Added/updated and all pass - [x] **Localization:** All end-user-facing strings can be localized - [ ] **Dev docs:** Added/updated - [ ] **New binaries:** Added on the required places - [ ] [JSON for signing](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ESRPSigning_core.json) for new binaries - [ ] [WXS for installer](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/installer/PowerToysSetup/Product.wxs) for new binaries and localization folder - [ ] [YML for CI pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/ci/templates/build-powertoys-steps.yml) for new test projects - [ ] [YML for signed pipeline](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/main/.pipelines/release.yml) - [ ] **Documentation updated:** If checked, please file a pull request on [our docs repo](https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-uwp/tree/docs/hub/powertoys) and link it here: N/A ## Detailed Description of the Pull Request / Additional comments The native keyboard listener previously armed press-and-hold on owner-letter key-down and immediately queued a delayed managed render. Although pre-threshold Space/arrows were excluded from native trigger-key activation, they did not invalidate that pending render. Holding the owner letter after pressing Space therefore still displayed the picker and made both invocation systems feel enabled. This change adds an explicit native-to-managed cancellation event and a generation-based managed display state: - In `PressAndHold`, Space or either arrow before the snapshotted hold threshold cancels the current gesture and passes through without input injection. - Space/arrows at or after the threshold retain their intended picker navigation behavior. - Any different physical letter in Quick Accent's supported key set cancels the owner gesture before passing through, even when that letter has no mapping in the selected language. - Owner repeats and owner key-up are handled from active physical ownership rather than current language eligibility, so live language changes cannot leave stale state. - Activation mode, input time, and hold duration are atomically published and snapshotted once per owner gesture. The native listener passes the same delay snapshot to managed scheduling, so live settings changes apply to the next gesture instead of desynchronizing native interaction from picker visibility. - Character data is prepared before native navigation can become interactive, preventing accepted navigation from being dropped. - Legacy Space/arrow/Both acquisition behavior is preserved. The low-level hook has no clean deterministic native unit-test seam because its private handlers depend on Win32 keyboard state. Managed regression coverage exercises delayed-display cancellation, re-arming, generation invalidation, and delay snapshot preservation. ## Validation Steps Performed - Built `src/modules/poweraccent/PowerAccent.UI/PowerAccent.UI.csproj` in `Debug|x64`, covering the native WinRT projection and managed Core/UI. - Built `src/modules/poweraccent/PowerAccentKeyboardService/PowerAccentKeyboardService.vcxproj` in `Debug|x64`. - Built and ran all `PowerAccent.Core.UnitTests`: **35 passed, 0 failed**. - Ran `git diff --check`. - Performed focused code reviews of pre-threshold trigger cancellation, intervening mapped/unmapped letters, live mode/duration snapshots, language changes, owner key-up balance, and post-threshold navigation. --------- Copilot-Session: cbd8418a-64cb-4c6c-8653-2f3f0a6ceb9e
Microsoft PowerToys
Microsoft PowerToys is a collection of utilities that help you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks.
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🔨 Utilities
PowerToys includes over 30 utilities to help you customize and optimize your Windows experience:
Advanced Paste
Always on Top
Awake
Color Picker
Command Not Found
Command Palette
Crop And Lock
Environment Variables
FancyZones
File Explorer Add-ons
File Locksmith
Grab And Move
Hosts File Editor
Image Resizer
Keyboard Manager
Light Switch
Mouse Utilities
Mouse Without Borders
New+
Peek
PowerDisplay
PowerRename
PowerToys Run
Quick Accent
Registry Preview
Screen Ruler
Shortcut Guide
Text Extractor
Workspaces
ZoomIt📦 Installation
For detailed installation instructions and system requirements, visit the installation docs.
But to get started quickly, choose one of the installation methods below:
Download the .exe file from GitHub
Go to the PowerToys GitHub releases, scroll down and select Assets to reveal the installation files, and choose the one that matches your architecture and install scope. For most devices, that would be x64 per-user.
Microsoft Store
You can easily install PowerToys from the Microsoft Store:
WinGet
Download PowerToys from [WinGet](https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli#installing-the-client). Updating PowerToys via winget will respect the current PowerToys installation scope. To install PowerToys, run the following command from the command line / PowerShell:
- User scope installer (default)
winget install Microsoft.PowerToys -s winget
- Machine-wide scope installer
winget install --scope machine Microsoft.PowerToys -s winget
Other methods
There are [community driven install methods](https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/powertoys/install#community-driven-install-tools) such as Chocolatey and Scoop. If these are your preferred install solutions, you can find the install instructions there.
✨ What's new?
To see what's new, check out the release notes.
🛣️ Roadmap
We are planning some nice new features and improvements for the next releases – a brand-new Shortcut Guide experience, ensuring it's easier to find and install Command Palette extensions and so much more! Stay tuned for v0.100!
❤️ PowerToys Community
The PowerToys team is extremely grateful to have the support of an amazing active community. The work you do is incredibly important. PowerToys wouldn't be nearly what it is today without your help filing bugs, updating documentation, guiding the design, or writing features. We want to say thank you and take time to recognize your work. Your contributions and feedback improve PowerToys month after month!
Contributing
This project welcomes contributions of all types. Besides coding features / bug fixes, other ways to assist include spec writing, design, documentation, and finding bugs. We are excited to work with the power user community to build a set of tools for helping you get the most out of Windows. We ask that before you start work on a feature that you would like to contribute, please read our Contributor's Guide. We would be happy to work with you to figure out the best approach, provide guidance and mentorship throughout feature development, and help avoid any wasted or duplicate effort. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you grant us the rights to use your contribution and that you have permission to do so. For guidance on developing for PowerToys, please read the developer docs for a detailed breakdown. This includes how to setup your computer to compile.
Code of conduct
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct.
Privacy statement
The application logs basic diagnostic data (telemetry). For more privacy information and what we collect, see our PowerToys Data and Privacy documentation.