"James H H Lampert" <email@hidden> wrote:
>It seems that the function keys, both shifted and
>unshifted, (all are absolutely essential on any 5250-type
>terminal) are being intercepted by the operating system
>before my code can get them as KeyEvents.
>
>How does one keep this from happening?
I'm not sure if the following will work, but it's worth a shot.
In System Preferences, the Keyboard and Mouse pane has a Keyboard Shortcuts
tab. You can bind keys to menu-commands there. If your app uses Swing and
has screen-menubar enabled, I think it will work, but you should check it.
Also, try disabling the F-keys in Expose', or assign them to ctrl-F-keys,
or whatever.
The monitor brightness is also controlled by F14 and F15, but I know of no
way to disable that. It may be that an override in Keyboard Shortcuts will
do it, but I haven't investigated it.
>I'm sure there must be some online document available
>explaining how to do this; if so, just point me in the
>right direction.
I don't know of any such document, or whether it's even possible. Some
F-keys are clearly available to applications, because pressing some of them
in, say, TextEdit or Terminal, actually appears in the app. You can search
ADC for F-keys, function-keys, etc.:
<http://developer.apple.com/search/search.html>
The only other thing I can think of is to use a key-macro program to send
specific sequences to your app, which it is programmed to recognize as
these "F-key proxies".
-- GG
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