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