ALT+TAB Detection

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From: Stephane Baillargeon
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:00

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Is there a way to detect the ALT+TAB app switcher and control it?

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We are developping a large scale video game. Durring gameplay, we want the
user to be able to hit the ALT+TAB keys in order to change the current task.
Our problem is that the game's threads are still running in the background
and it consumes a massive ammount of memory rendering the PC pretty slow. Is
there a way to detect this combination of keys in a WinAPI point of view and
stop the task switch momentarly to do some proccessing like stopping the
game's threads?

Thank you.

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