Re: [MiNT] Ctrl+Alt+Q deactivated

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

Jo Even Skarstein wrote:

> From: Helmut Karlowski <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 9:57 AM
> To: <mint@lists.fishpool.fi>
> Cc: <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>
> Subject: Re: [MiNT] Ctrl+Alt+Q deactivated
>
> >> That works fine. Shutdown now works as we discussed, but I'm still
> >> looking
> >> into how to display an ordinary alert from within XaAES.
> >
> > Out of curiosity I tried my version yesterday - the alert is displayed,
> > but the
> > return-value (intout[0]) is not 0 or 1 but 8 or 9, so it would work when
> > subsctracting 7. Also I gave the AESPB-members memory.
> >
> > But C.Aes does not terminate ..
> >
> > Maybe this would work from k_keybd.
>
> I thought about this this morning. Perhaps the best solution is as follows:
>
> * Don't respond to Ctrl+Alt+H.
> * When Ctrl+Alt+Q is pressed, run the program pointed to by $SDMASTER. If
> $SDMASTER isn't set, don't do anything. If $SDMASTER is set but
> create_process() fails, emit an alert.
>
> If we do it like this, there is no need for a warning/alert as this will be
> handled by the shutdown-program. If $SDMASTER isn't set, the user can shut
> down or exit XaAES from the task manager as today.
>
> What do you think?

Yes - this would be a valid solution. But I was a little bored today and
implemented alerts for any shutdown-variant. It works good. From
taskmanager it's optional at compile-time.

Now it would be possible to ask when SDMASTER is not set or not found.

And it's not bad to have some possibility to interact from XaAES generally.

I suggest I commit the stuff 'till weekend, and you do your patch again ;)

-Helmut