The Old New Thing

Pressing a registered hotkey gives you the foreground activation love

February 26, 2009 Feb 26, 2009 02/26/09

Raymond Chen

One category of application that people complained about is the application launcher which keys off a hotkey and doesn't get the foreground love. Well, except that windows with registered hotkeys do get the foreground love. After you call the function to register a hotkey, the window manager will send you a message when the user ...