id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	resolution	keywords	cc
40	Todo: implement the keyboard capture code for Qt frontend	Valery V. Sedletski		"The old VBox port from year 2008 contains the code for capturing the keyboard via a keyboard hook DLL. It intercept all keyboard input including special keys and modifiers, hotkeys etc. Here I attached the patch for a Makefile to build a VBoxHlp.dll -- a helper DLL which contains a keyboard hook. The work remained is to refactor the keyboard code to different source files and classes. This is needed because the source code structure is changed in the upstream. Without this code, the Qt frontend may block PM on waiting the input events. It can be used though, if start the frontend like this:

{{{
VirtualBox.exe --startvm winxp
}}}

Then the selector window will be not running and no communication between them and the VM window. Also, the user experience is even better if you install the VBox additions and use mouse integration (see #29).
"	task	closed	major	VBox QT Interface	Frontends	fixed	qt frontend keyboard hook helper