I've done some more testing, and it looks like it's only alt-tab that affects it. If I use the title bar to switch, or minimise the DOSBox window with the title bar button, the keys are fine. Alt-tab provokes the "sticky alt key" behaviour. *sigh* More debugging tomorrow... 🙁

Hmm, I think I can see why nobody's added this feature yet... When you do an Alt-tab with DOSBox active, it remembers that the ALT key is down. When you switch back, DOSBox still remembers that. So when you press a key - any key - the key that the DOS application sees is actually Alt, plus the key …

You can take a look at the function that pauses dosbox. It's connected to the alt-pause key at the moment. Might save you some coding. (and will make you a bit more at home with DOSBox it's code. I think the function is in sdlmain.cpp as well) Heh, that's where I took the code from to begin with. …

make DOSBox pause when it loses input focus" is on the to-do list Which to do list ? (searches around a bit) Oh, it wasn't a to-do list, it was DosFreak's "DosBox Wish List" thread over in DOSBox General: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=7745 Instead of adding a seperate option for it, …

Hi, I noticed that "make DOSBox pause when it loses input focus" is on the to-do list, so I figured I'd have a go at implementing it. Turns out it wasn't a particularly hard thing to implement, but adding the "spit and polish" is proving a little difficult. What I want to do is add a key shortcut to …