Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 21:14:34 +0200
From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To overcome this a low level keyboard hook must be used. A good starting
point summary is found at
http://www.codeproject.com/win32/AntonioWinLock.asp. Look under subtitle
"Hooks".
Watch out for the caveats of using low-level keyboard interfaces: what
the hook gets is the scan code of the key and various bit masks for
the modifier keys. That means that the application (us) will have to
take care of the key translation machinery, such as mapping the same
keys to different characters depending on the language, translation of
AltGr + KEY combinations to produce special non-ASCII characters, etc.
Eventually, it is quite possible that we will have to introduce
translation code and tables into Emacs for each supported keyboard
input language. See msdos.c for an example of where this could lead;
that way lies madness. (The MSDOS port had no good alternative, since
too many useful key combinations would be unavailable for Emacs if it
were to use only the standard keyboard interface. But I wouldn't
recommend going that way just to fix some obscure misfeature which
most users won't even notice unless explicitly told about.)
I would not suggest using it if I believed that. I have seen what
trouble it could be handling keyboard keys. The nice thing here is
however that not much might be required. Look at the example here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwxp/html/xpvisualstyles.asp
Would it not be possible to detect for example <lwindow> here and send
an Emacs specific message to the Emacs thread that recieves the keyboard
input?
BTW that page says that is has to be systemwide, but the page I sent
before shows how to avoid that.
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