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In article <gilbertd.724595093@cs.man.ac.uk>, gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk (David Alan Gilbert) writes:
> input focus - I have the same problem at the moment.  I know
> I can put a grab keys window at the back and things like that,

You don't need a separate window, you can set the hot-key bit on the filer
window. The problem is more one of clashes between a foreground application and
hot keys (e.g. DeskEdit traps just about every normal keycode). You really need
hot keys to be in a separate range to "normal" keys. This is certainly
possible, as the code returned to an application is a 32-bit number, but how do
you generate them? My KeyChange module (available from Newcastle) does this,
but isn't machine-independent beacuse Acorn don't guarantee that the low-level
keycodes won't change. 

  What's really needed is another key on the keyboard (maybe just use one of
the alt keys so it would work with older machines), and a modified keyboard
driver, plus guidance from Acorn on how hot-keys should be used. This is, of
course, exactly what's done on the Mac; since Acorn were pretty much copying
the Mac interface you might have thought they'd have kept the best bits, but
evidently not ...

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