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From: johny@cogs.susx.ac.uk (Lord Yak Da Hairy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: two new utilities on info server
Message-ID: <4610@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 1 Mar 91 12:46:00 GMT
References: <1991Feb22.131230.1013@newcastle.ac.uk> <1991Feb26.101937.12286@abekrd.co.uk>
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In article <1991Feb26.101937.12286@abekrd.co.uk> garyb@abekrd.co.uk (Gary Bartlett) writes:
>2) I noticed when clicking on the icon (it didn't do it all the time) that
>   a window 'Grab Keys' popped up (in disgusting olive and orange colours)
>   which had as a menu the Task Window menu.  This is clearly a bug.  I have
>   seen this happen before with something else but cannot remember what.

That's so the Task Manager can get the F12 key shortcuts. I ran largeness,
killed this window as it was in the way, then tried to get to the CLI with F12.
Nothing happened. I spent a couple of minutes banging my head against the wall
before I realised what was going on...

Now the question. Is it possible to receive the KeyPressed event with just an
icon up, ie no windows open? It annoys me that the Task Manager takes a window
handle, !HotKeys takes a window handle, !Indicate takes a window handle - all
just for key grabbing. It wouldn't be so bad if the max number of window
handles wasn't so damn low...

-- John Yeates (Lord Yak Da Hairy) --------------------------------------------
-- johny@syma.sussex.ac.uk OR johny@cogs.sussex.ac.uk  (0273) 678318
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Something for RISC OS 3, perhaps? (Assuming it exists, of course :-)