Hiding Menus

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ponyboy (Posted 2008) [#1]

Does HideGadget work on menus? I tried creating a hidden menu and using HideGadget to hide it, but it is still visible. I was going to use it for global keypresses in my MaxGUI app, is there a better way to handle keys being pressed no matter which gadget has focus? I noticed no event is thrown during a KeyDown, KeyUp, or KeyPress. Thanks!

skidracer (Posted 2008) [#2]

Check out SetHotkeyEvent which will fire an Event every time your hotkey is pressed.

ponyboy (Posted 2008) [#3]

Thanks, that will work nicely! Is there a certain event I should use in the SetHotkeyEvent function in order to catch these events? If I omit the event it shows as an Unknown Event.

skidracer (Posted 2008) [#4]

The docs say: If event is null, an event with id equal to EVENT_HOTKEYHIT, data equal to key and mods equal to mods will be emitted. so would be surprised if thats not the case. ... there is a problem with CurrentEvent.ToString() not recognizing EVENT_HOTKEYHIT, have commited a fix to subversion.

ponyboy (Posted 2008) [#5]

Ok, that's why I was seeing the Unknown Event then. Thanks!