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Re: Alt-Enter

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From: Vernon McPherron
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 00:00
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"John P. McGrath" wrote:

> Hadi Abdo <skfdid@dm.net.lb> wrote:
>
> > Have anyone tried to listen to Alt-Enter key combination.
> > I have tried this code:
> >   :
> >   :
>
> I presume you are running your program under some flavor of
> Windows, where the ALT-Enter key sequence toggles the display
> between full-screen mode and windowed mode.
>
> There is nothing wrong with your code.  It is just that Windows
> does not pass that key combination through to your Java program.
> So Java never sees the key event.
>
> I do not know of any way of telling Windows to ignore this key
> combination, and to pass it to your program.  My guess is that
> there is some way to do it, probably buried somewhere deep in the
> NT registry.

If that is the case....   And you are running a "dos prompt" you can set
it to not look (or capture) some key combos.  Go into the dos prompt
setup and unselect the alt + enter.
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