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Hi:
I did not receive the list traffic for a month. The series of
Allexander's patches makes me wonder: are they archived somewhere?
Perhaps on the OuS site, or CPC site? Or is this mailing list the only
medium of distribution?
W.
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Alexander Iljin wrote:
> 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.
>
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> Alexander
>
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>
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