Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add support for a Send Key menu.

[Peter Maydell]

On 11 July 2016 at 23:20, Programmingkid <address@hidden> wrote:
> Add a menu called "Send Key". It is populated with options the user supplies 
> at
> runtime. The option works like this: -sendkeymenu <title>:<key values>. The
> title can be anything you want. The values are the hexadecimal values for the
> keycodes. The title is added to the menu as an menu item. The keycodes are 
> sent
> to QEMU.
>
> Example: -sendkeymenu 
> Command-Option-Esc:0x37,0x3a,0x35:Command-Power:0x37,0x7f7f
>
> Two menu items would be added to the "Send Key" menu with this example.
>
> This feature could be used to send Control-Alt-Delete to a Windows guest. It 
> can
> also be used to send Command-Power keys to a Mac OS 9 guest to display 
> Macsbugs.
> The user can decide what menu items to place in this menu. If the user doesn't
> use this feature the "Send Key" menu is not displayed.

Do we have this feature in any of our other front end UIs?
I don't really want to get into adding features to the Cocoa
UI frontend that don't exist anywhere else. (We've had this
discussion before, I think.)

thanks
-- PMM