From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 14794@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14794: 24.3.50; `w32-register-hot-key' does not work on Windows 7 64-bit
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:47:17 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f99844ca-a167-4256-b310-c851f1d84a42@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<8361whuk8c.fsf@gnu.org>>
> > I'm using Windows 7 64-bit, if that makes a difference.
> > (And the same code worked fine on Windows XP SP3.)
>
> 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".
Ouch. Awful. And hard to believe.
> 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".
>
> Does this work for you with other key combinations, btw?
Dunno. Can you tell me some key combinations to try?
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <<8361whuk8c.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-07-11 18:47 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2013-07-11 19:19 ` bug#14794: 24.3.50; `w32-register-hot-key' does not work on Windows 7 64-bit Eli Zaretskii
[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] <<fe76a82d-41dd-4c28-8204-aa7c1e4a2aef@default>
[not found] ` <<83fvvmuyct.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-07-10 22:28 ` Drew Adams
2013-07-11 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-07-12 8:20 ` martin rudalics
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
2013-07-04 21:10 Drew Adams
2013-07-10 17:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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