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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add support for a Send Key menu.
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Programmingkid |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add support for a Send Key menu. |
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Mon, 11 Jul 2016 18:31:27 -0400 |
On Jul 11, 2016, at 6:28 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 11 July 2016 at 23:20, Programmingkid <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Add a menu called "Send Key". It is populated with options the user supplies
>> at
>> runtime. The option works like this: -sendkeymenu <title>:<key values>. The
>> title can be anything you want. The values are the hexadecimal values for the
>> keycodes. The title is added to the menu as an menu item. The keycodes are
>> sent
>> to QEMU.
>>
>> Example: -sendkeymenu
>> Command-Option-Esc:0x37,0x3a,0x35:Command-Power:0x37,0x7f7f
>>
>> Two menu items would be added to the "Send Key" menu with this example.
>>
>> This feature could be used to send Control-Alt-Delete to a Windows guest. It
>> can
>> also be used to send Command-Power keys to a Mac OS 9 guest to display
>> Macsbugs.
>> The user can decide what menu items to place in this menu. If the user
>> doesn't
>> use this feature the "Send Key" menu is not displayed.
>
> Do we have this feature in any of our other front end UIs?
> I don't really want to get into adding features to the Cocoa
> UI frontend that don't exist anywhere else. (We've had this
> discussion before, I think.)
When a feature is added that doesn't exist before, it is called innovation :)
It would make things easier on the people working on Mac OS 9 support.