Re: Alt-Esc works, why can't we pass Alt-Tab to the WM?

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Igor,

Huh... well, if it requires a keyboard hook then it really is kinda 
complex to add this "Alt-Tab" catching behavior.

As far as adding a keyboard/mouse hook in general, I am kinda stuck on 
that one.  I can't decide if it is better to build a small DLL with 
Visual Studio with a defined interface that XWin.exe uses (if it can 
load the DLL), or if it is better (or even a good idea) to try to build 
a small hook DLL with MinGW.  Any comments?

Harold

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Sam Edge wrote:
>
>
> > Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote in <Pine.GSO.4.44.0307021924090.17919-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
> > in gmane.os.cygwin.xfree on Wed, 2 Jul 2003 19:26:44 -0400 (EDT):
> >
> >
> > > On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> > >
> > > > There is the possibility that Alt+Tab can only be trapped on NT-based
> > > > OSes, but that isn't much more to worry about.
> >
> > > Win98, at least, has a Misc tab in shortcut properties, that lists Windows
> > > shortcut keys to ignore (let the application handle).  Alt-Tab is one of
> > > them.  Thus, you could instruct the users set up a shortcut to XWin.exe
> > > and let it handle Alt-Tab, even if XWin.exe can't capture it itself.
> > > P.S. I'm not sure Win95/ME have this feature.
> >
> > I think you'll find that the Misc property page is only available with
> > shortcuts to DOS-mode applications. Windows-native executables like
> > XWin.exe don't have it.
>
>
> Yes, you're right.  However, after some more digging, it seems that
> keyboard hooks (perhaps similar to what Harold suggested earlier?) *can*
> be used on Win9x to intercept hotkeys (e.g., Alt-Tab) in Win32 apps.  I
> haven't found the exact instructions on MSDN, though...
> 	Igor