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First post, by luckie

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Hi,
Some MS guy has diverted me to this ng. Sorry if this is OT, or someone might shed some lights on this....
I am running DOSBox on which I'd like to run a different language OS on top of it. The program requests me to switch mode between English and the language I am using. The short-cut key they use is Ctrl-Esc. When I press Ctrl-Esc on my keyboard, this goes to the XP start menu instead of switching mode inside DOSBox, Are there any ways to get around this?
I have tried Keymapper to no avail...
Thanks a lot
Jack

Reply 2 of 3, by MiniMax

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luckie - I don't think there is anything you can do in DOSBox to intercept CTRL-ESC. That key-combo is handled by the SDL-library and forwarded to Windows. If you really, REALLY want, I assume you can compile a version of SDL that forward the key-combo to DOSBox instead.

Edit: Or maybe not. If wd says the keymapper works for this, then it works. wd knows 10 times more than me about DOSBox.

Last edited by MiniMax on 2007-07-22, 15:34. Edited 1 time in total.

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