- Ctrl+Break patch

From: Marco Ciot <"Marco>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:21:05 +0100

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Hey Alexander

Unfortunately the thing doesn't work either, now when multiple BB Instances
are running.
Do you think there's a workaround here also?

What I do is develop in one BB instance and test in a second one.

Best regards
Marco


-----Original Message-----
From: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy
Alexander Iljin
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 23:59
To: BlackBox Mailing List
Subject: [BlackBox] - Ctrl+Break patch


Hello, Alexander!

AI> Description: Patch fixing Ctrl+Break functionality.
AI> Author: Alexander Iljin, 24.09.2006.
AI> Problem: Ctrl+Break key combination does not interrupt hung program
AI> very well.
AI> Changes:
AI> - fixed Kernel.KeyboardWatcher procedure;
AI> - linked BlackBox.exe with new Kernel module.

AI> To install patch replace files in BlackBox installation directory with
AI> corresponding files from this patch. You must close BlackBox before
AI> replacing BlackBox.exe.

  I forgot to mention, that as a side-effect of the patch Ctrl+Break
  will interrupt hanging BlackBox even if another application is
  currently active and you may think that you address Ctrl+Break to
  that application.

  You see, the key combination is registered globally in the system,
  not only for BlackBox. Before the patch, BlackBox's watcher thread
  tried to ignore Ctrl+Breaks if they were send with BlackBox not
  being currently active. That's precisely why it stopped working when
  we moved from Windows 98 to Windows XP. When a program is being too
  busy for a while, it is not active anymore. Instead the Explorer
  is active, replacing the offending window with its own, with
  "...is not responding" in the title bar. Thus, Ctrl+Break didn't
  work.
  I simply removed the "who is active?" check. Now you may interrupt
  BlackBox' execution from anywhere. Call it a feature.

---=====---
 Alexander

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