Re: CDE, Exceed and function keys

From: Tim Andrews (tim-andrews_at_nospam.dsl.pipex.com)
Date: 12/14/03 

Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 22:50:46 -0000

Unfortunately recoding the app is not a possibility for now :-( It is due
to get replaced in the longer term but in the meantime I'll just have to
bodge something up! 

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"Tim Andrews" <tim-andrews@nospam.dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> We're in the process of moving people off Sun boxes to PC but they still
> need their Sun apps so we've given them a load of Sun application servers
> and Exceed 7.  We're using CDE Application Manager as the 'portal' from
> which the users can launch their Unix apps via Exceed.
>
> The problem comes with some old in-house apps which are driven entirely be
> combinations of the F keys - e.g. ALT+F4, ALF+F6.  ALT+F4 is obviously the
> key that Windows closes the window, and ALT+F6 flips between windows in
> Exceed - so there doesn't seem to be a way to make these keys perform the
> right actions in the app.  In the Sun world, we used the f.pass_keys
> function (toggle CDE function keys on/off) bound to a root (workspace)
menu
> item in the global dtwmrc file which was fine because on the Sun, dtwm
would
> be running.  Because we're only running the CDE Application Manager for
> Exceed users, theres no dtwm running and no root menu so there's no
obvious
> way of switching the function keys on and off.
>
> I have a few theories about Exceed being the window manager so it's what
> controls the F keys, but otherwise I'm a bit stuck here.  Any ideas would
be
> appreciated.
>
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