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Hollandrock
Profile Joined January 2012
United Kingdom158 Posts
August 14 2013 13:28 GMT
#1
Recently while I have been playing Starcraft, I have been using the hot-key of Alt+Q for a camera hot-key (different from the standard setup). This works really well for me, except that I end up accidentally pressing Alt-tab or the windows key from time to time.

Fortunately, within the client, there is an option to turn off alt-tab and to turn of the windows key. Although this works correctly, this is not ideal for me. This stops you from using the alt-tab command and the windows key at any point while the client is open. Even when I use Ctrl-Alt-Del to try and open task manager, I return to the full-screen client. This means I am unable to do anything outside the starcraft client without exiting the game and then opening it later.

The idea I had for being able to fix this problem would be to set the alt-tab command to work only when I have scroll lock down, preferably set up so that throughout windows, this will always be required.
I am not experienced in programming so am unable to write a programme for this myself, but would be very grateful if someone were able to help me out with this. Thanks!

plgElwood
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany518 Posts
August 14 2013 14:14 GMT
#2
ctrl-shift-esc opens TM directly in Win7.
Also Keyboards for real men does not come with Windows-Key or no space between tab and Q
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renaissanceMAN
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1840 Posts
August 14 2013 14:20 GMT
#3
On August 14 2013 22:28 Hollandrock wrote:
Recently while I have been playing Starcraft, I have been using the hot-key of Alt+Q for a camera hot-key (different from the standard setup). This works really well for me, except that I end up accidentally pressing Alt-tab or the windows key from time to time.

Fortunately, within the client, there is an option to turn off alt-tab and to turn of the windows key. Although this works correctly, this is not ideal for me. This stops you from using the alt-tab command and the windows key at any point while the client is open. Even when I use Ctrl-Alt-Del to try and open task manager, I return to the full-screen client. This means I am unable to do anything outside the starcraft client without exiting the game and then opening it later.

The idea I had for being able to fix this problem would be to set the alt-tab command to work only when I have scroll lock down, preferably set up so that throughout windows, this will always be required.
I am not experienced in programming so am unable to write a programme for this myself, but would be very grateful if someone were able to help me out with this. Thanks!



What kind of keyboard do you have? Some keyboards (like the Razer Blackwidow) have a "Gaming Mode" which allows you to disable Alt-Tab and some other common key-commands that can fuck up your game.
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Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20285 Posts
August 14 2013 14:52 GMT
#4
He wants to disable it only when scroll lock is pressed
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Hollandrock
Profile Joined January 2012
United Kingdom158 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-14 15:11:19
August 14 2013 15:08 GMT
#5
On August 14 2013 23:20 renaissanceMAN wrote:

What kind of keyboard do you have? Some keyboards (like the Razer Blackwidow) have a "Gaming Mode" which allows you to disable Alt-Tab and some other common key-commands that can fuck up your game.


My keyboard (for real women, with a windows key) is a Qpad MK-50. I looked it up quickly and found no results for any type of 'gaming mode'. Thanks for the idea though!

On August 14 2013 23:14 plgElwood wrote:
ctrl-shift-esc opens TM directly in Win7.


This does appear to solve my problem for starcraft as it already has the functionality to disable alt-tab. Thanks!
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