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- From: burke@vxdesy.desy.de
- Subject: Re: Improved filer
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.134353.1@vxdesy.desy.de>
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- References: <marlow.723896990@radon.sys.uea.ac.uk> <1992Dec15.131442.22909@reks.uia.ac.be> <gilbertd.724595093@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:43:53 GMT
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- In article <gilbertd.724595093@cs.man.ac.uk>, gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk (David Alan Gilbert) writes:
- > input focus - I have the same problem at the moment. I know
- > I can put a grab keys window at the back and things like that,
-
- You don't need a separate window, you can set the hot-key bit on the filer
- window. The problem is more one of clashes between a foreground application and
- hot keys (e.g. DeskEdit traps just about every normal keycode). You really need
- hot keys to be in a separate range to "normal" keys. This is certainly
- possible, as the code returned to an application is a 32-bit number, but how do
- you generate them? My KeyChange module (available from Newcastle) does this,
- but isn't machine-independent beacuse Acorn don't guarantee that the low-level
- keycodes won't change.
-
- What's really needed is another key on the keyboard (maybe just use one of
- the alt keys so it would work with older machines), and a modified keyboard
- driver, plus guidance from Acorn on how hot-keys should be used. This is, of
- course, exactly what's done on the Mac; since Acorn were pretty much copying
- the Mac interface you might have thought they'd have kept the best bits, but
- evidently not ...
-
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