Re: [GD-Windows] disabling windows keys

[Lachlan L. <da_...@ho...>]

    This is just my two cents here, but personally I can't stand it when you
bump a windows key while playing a game and it jumps right out in order to
open the start menu or whatever (and it always seems to happen at the most
unapropriate times =). If you ask me, as long as the game isn't running in
windowed mode, it should be able to trap the windows keys. If the player
wants to use other windows operations then maybe they can run the game in
windowed mode or something. There should at least be an option to turn
windows keys off.

    Hope I didn't kick up an ant-hill here =)

    - Lachlan

----- Original Message -----
From: Rich <leg...@xm...>
To: <gam...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [GD-Windows] disabling windows keys


>
> In article <002c01c1b36b$7cee2920$7f55533e@aurora>,
>     =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ignacio_Casta=F1o?= <cas...@ya...>  writes:
>
> > Ok, I got rid of alt+tab, ctrl+esc, and alt+esc key combinations, but
the
> > user is still able to switch the task just by pressing any windows keys.
> > Does somebody know how to disable them?
>
> Please tell me what title you're working on so I know to recommend
> people to stay away from it.  I can't stand games that try to disable
> functionality that I -expect- to work on my PC.  This philosophy is
> the same one that gives us all those "NetMeeting disabled D3D"
> problems.
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