Capture the Windows key

[David Venable]

If anyone knows how to capture the Windows key, I would
appreciate it very much. I'm not sure if it's even possible,
I'm thinking it's probably not....but, just in case.

Dave

[Lance Edmonds]

It can be disabled in Windows 95 with a small utility from MS, primarily provided to stop game players from pushing it accidentally!

I don't know if such a utility is still available for more recent version so Windows, but MS should be able to tell you.

Do you actually need to intercept the Windows (and maybe the Context key) or just ignore them? What ideas do you have in mind?

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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[David Venable]

Well, Lance, I've kind of been messing around with a unix-style
shell for dos, and I was hoping to be able to intercept the
windows key and move to my own procedure, so as to avoid users
other than root from exiting the program (or getting around it
by jumping into windows). Thanks in advance,

Dave

[Lance Edmonds]

I searched http://www.msdn.microsoft.com and only found one reference to disabling the Windows key, but it is probbaly of little use to you.
http://support.microsoft.com/support.../Q216/8/93.ASP

I'd suggest you trawl Usenet and some of the hardware programming sites...

Good luck!


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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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[David Venable]

Thanks, Lance, I really appreciate it.

Dave

[Paul G. Penn]

BIOS Keyboard Routine

Doesn't the BIOS Keyboard function call (INT &H16) return the ASCII character and scan code for ANY key on the keyboard? If so, all a program would have to do is check the scan code for the Windows key (ASCII character will be 0) and act on it.