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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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