Intercepting arrow keys and menus on XP

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Fri Jul 2 15:41:28 EDT 2004


On Jul 2, 2004, at 1:14 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote:

> In an application I trap the arrow keys for navigation purposes.  The 
> problem is that the arrow keys are trapped (doesn't seem to matter if 
> my script is in frontScripts or backScripts) even when the user 
> activates a program menu in XP which means you can't use arrows to 
> navigate the menus.  Anyone know how to determine if a program is 
> current open?

Will it help to check 'the target' in the handler and pass otherwise?

Dar Scott



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