Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site well.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!well!drk From: drk@well.UUCP (Doug Kaye) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: How does SideKick work? Message-ID: <233@well.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 21:42:14 EDT Article-I.D.: well.233 Posted: Fri Oct 25 21:42:14 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 19:37:38 EDT Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 23 Keywords: Sidekick, "Hot Keys" We are about to embark upon a development project for a memory-resident Terminal emulator. This emulator will be activated via so-called Hot Keys, as is Sidekick. We are concerned that our emulator and Sidekick be able to co exist, including the ability to invoke SK on top of our emulator (and vice versa?). First of all, does anyone know which (or both) technique SK uses for grabbing the keyboard? (1) Intercept keyboard interrupts, and/or (2) Intercept BIOS calls for keyboard. If anyone is interested in giving us some pointers in memory-resident "keyboard-takeover" applications, please contact me directly. On the other hand, if you're interested in sharing your knowledge with others why not start it out right here. Doug Kaye Rational Data Systems, Inc. 5725 Paradise Drive Corte Madera, CA 94925 415/924-0840 ihnp4!hplabs!well!drk