odd error

[Tim Golden]

On 09/03/2010 16:34, Tim Golden wrote:
> On 09/03/2010 13:55, Alex Hall wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> In the same program I wrote about yesterday, I have a dictionary of
>> keystrokes which are captured. I just tried adding a new one, bringing
>> the total to 11. Here are entries 10 and 11; 10 has been working fine
>> for months.
>>
>>     10 : (57, win32con.MOD_CONTROL),
>>     11 : (99, win32con.MOD_CONTROL | win32con.MOD_SHIFT)
>>
>> Now, though, when I press ctrl-shift-c (keystroke 11)
>
> Ctrl-C (with or without any other modifier) has a special meaning
> which overrides any hotkeys. You may be able to do something by
> adding a break handler through SetConsoleCtrlHandler (exposed in
> win32api). But it would obviously be a special case outside your
> normal control flow.

... or you could use SetConsoleMode to disable input processing. But
that would only work (I think) in one console, not at a global level.

TJG