The Keyboard Home Key Enigma

Why is it when I hit my keyboard "Home" key the fader in my mixer shoots to the top? I am in the multitrack mode and have to channels in solo mode. My Mike fader doesn't move only the one with the music track for my voiceover??? Very strange....hitting the Home key is only supposed return me to the beginning of the project and not effect my mixer fader setting??? Even turning the automation to OFF instead of read has no affect!
Does anyone have this issue??

So... the clients send input events to the host and the host in turn simulates those events with the use of a Robot. Is that correct?
If so then the program needs to save the last injected keyboard input that had a modifier mask in a field somewhere. Whenever you need to ask if any modifier keys are being pressed, you need only to look at this field and see if it is a pressed event. However, this method won't be able to detect a person physically at the host computer typing stuff.
The central problem is that you can query keyboard input from OS (such as asking if shift is currently pressed) without a focused window using the standard api. But a focused window kind of defeats the purpose of what you are trying to do.

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