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echo: os2prog
to: Don Ignacio
from: Peter Fitzsimmons
date: 1995-06-15 05:11:02
subject: OS/2 KeyBoard Handling

DI> Good Day to everybody outthere. I'm having trouble with my programming
 DI> project at school. Does anybody know how to pass keystroke information
 DI> to OS/2's keyboard buffer? But the keystroke will not come from the

Stuffing keystrokes is done with a keyboard device monitor.  This only
works for full screen OS/2 sessions (not dos sessions,  not OS/2 windows).

I coundn't find a stuffer sample in a quick two-minute check;  if you are
still interested (with the stated limitations), let me know and I'll look
harder.

Here's a sample that monitors the keyboard (but does not insert new keys):


 HOTKEY12.LZH ( 27)Hot-key (switch) to/from OS/2 full-screen sessions
                   and/or VDMs ("DOS boxes").  Public domain by P.
                   Fitzsimmons & D. Burton. Source incl.


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