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From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 14794@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14794: 24.3.50; `w32-register-hot-key' does not work on Windows 7 64-bit
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 10:20:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51DFBC65.3040303@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8361whuk8c.fsf@gnu.org>

 > Turns out it does make a difference.  This documentation page:
 >
 >   http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms646309%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
 >
 > explicitly says that the behavior of the underlying API has changed
 > since XP: if the hot key is already registered, the API now fails
 > instead of replacing the old registration with the new.  And Alt+TAB
 > is hooked by the Windows Explorer.  And indeed, on Windows 7 I see
 > that the call to RegisterHotKey API consistently fails with an error
 > code which says "Hot key is already registered".
 >
 > Unless someone knows a way around this (I searched for it, but didn't
 > find any solutions, only complaints), I guess this will remain a
 > "known bug".

 From what I read on such systems an application that does not have
registered a key itself is allowed to unregister it only if it is
certified in some way and resides in Program Files.

martin





  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-12  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <<fe76a82d-41dd-4c28-8204-aa7c1e4a2aef@default>
     [not found] ` <<83fvvmuyct.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-07-10 22:28   ` bug#14794: 24.3.50; `w32-register-hot-key' does not work on Windows 7 64-bit Drew Adams
2013-07-11 16:36     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-12  8:20       ` martin rudalics [this message]
2013-07-12  8:29         ` Drew Adams
2013-07-12  8:55         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-20 13:29       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-20 13:39         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-20 14:04           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-20 21:13           ` bug#14794: [External] : " Drew Adams
     [not found] <<c27d6591-74ce-42dc-96dd-bcb01df42b2c@default>
     [not found] ` <<83k3kw5kni.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-07-12 16:10   ` Drew Adams
2013-07-12 18:04     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <<f99844ca-a167-4256-b310-c851f1d84a42@default>
     [not found] ` <<83oba86h0q.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-07-11 21:12   ` Drew Adams
2013-07-12  6:58     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <<1bda8371-6234-45f4-a2b8-00ac282f2088@default>
     [not found] ` <<8361whuk8c.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-07-11 18:47   ` Drew Adams
2013-07-11 19:19     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-04 21:10 Drew Adams
2013-07-10 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii

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