[vtkusers] F10 and ALT keys

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Salut Jean Michel,

	Could you add a bug (feature request) for this and assign to me. Your 
patch looks good to me, it's just I need to check what is the behavior 
on *nices, and Mac to try to have a similar behavior.

Thanks
Mathieu

jean-michel.rouet at philips.com wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I search google but didn't find any significant answers.
> 
> Here is my problem:
> Under win32, the ALT and F10 keys are not handled the same way as the 
> others.
> Thus the KeyPress event is not generated, and there is no way for a VTK 
> application to
> react on such keys.
> Apparently, win32 generates a WM_SYSKEYUP and WM_SYSKEYDOWN message 
> instead of the WM_KEYUP and WM_KEYDOWN.
> Can a change to vtkWin32RenderWindowInteractor.cxx be made ?
> 
> like:
> 
> +    case WM_SYSKEYDOWN:
>     case WM_KEYDOWN:
>       me->OnKeyDown(hWnd,wParam,LOWORD(lParam),HIWORD(lParam));
>       break;
> 
> +    case WM_SYSKEYUP:
>     case WM_KEYUP:
>       me->OnKeyUp(hWnd,wParam,LOWORD(lParam),HIWORD(lParam));
>       break;
> 
> in the
> LRESULT CALLBACK vtkHandleMessage2(HWND hWnd,UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam,
>                                    LPARAM lParam,
>                                    vtkWin32RenderWindowInteractor *me)
> function.
> 
> 
> Does it make sense ?
> 
> Regards,
> JM
> 
> 
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