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Disabling the windows key?

by Aaron K Murray · in General Discussion · 11/11/2007 (5:34 pm) · 8 replies

Is it possible to disable the windows key while the game is running?

I've added the standard mappings but can't seem to trap the windows key...

function ConfigureControls() {
if(!sceneWindow2D.getUseObjectMouseEvents())
sceneWindow2D.setUseObjectMouseEvents(true);

//set up the controls
moveMap.bindCmd(keyboard, "cmd", "inputKeyboard();", "inputKeyboardStop();");
moveMap.bindCmd(keyboard, "opt", "inputKeyboard();", "inputKeyboardStop();");
moveMap.bindCmd(keyboard, "lopt", "inputKeyboard();", "inputKeyboardStop();");
moveMap.bindCmd(keyboard, "ropt", "inputKeyboard();", "inputKeyboardStop();");
moveMap.bindCmd(keyboard, "win_lwindow", "inputKeyboard();", "inputKeyboardStop();");
moveMap.bindCmd(keyboard, "win_rwindow", "inputKeyboard();", "inputKeyboardStop();");
moveMap.bindCmd(keyboard, "win_apps", "inputKeyboard();", "inputKeyboardStop();");
}
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Chaim Krause
Chaim Gang
#1
11/11/2007 (5:45 pm)
The win keys are not available. See your documentation under TGB Glossary | Keyboard Keys for a listing of the keys you have available.

Torque Owner Aaron K Murray
#2
11/11/2007 (5:52 pm)
Bummer.

Associate Ross Pawley
#3
11/12/2007 (2:17 pm)
If you have the source you could disable it in the low level Windows Message handling.

Torque Owner Aaron K Murray
#4
11/12/2007 (2:40 pm)
Unfortunately I don't. I wonder if it requires special code to handle the windows key. Doesn't seem to make sense to leave it out if it was just another code to look for.

Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#5
11/12/2007 (2:52 pm)
It could have something to do with the cross-platform nature of the engine. Perhaps supporting the distinct platform handler for the Windows key was not on the minds of the engine dev's. I don't know. I'm not sure about the particulars of keyboard codes anymore. I haven't thought about int 16h for a long, long time--so long that I doubt there was a "Windows key".

EDIT: typos

Torque Owner Aaron K Murray
#6
11/12/2007 (2:54 pm)
Hrmm, well, we know that they support the special Mac keys. I'm just surprised this hasn't come up yet.

Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#7
11/12/2007 (3:02 pm)
Looking through the code, I see the references to the L/R Windows and Apps keys. Don't know why it's not parsing out, though. I didn't look deeper than seeing that the references were in winInput.cc.

Torque Owner Aaron K Murray
#8
11/15/2007 (8:07 am)
David - is there a way to see if the references are working at all? I don't know what interrupt actually gets sent to the OS when a windows key is pressed. It might be special.