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alinebee / Boxer

The DOS game emulator that's fit for your Mac.
http://boxerapp.com/
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How to send ctrl-alt-del? #74

Open breezzz opened 6 years ago

breezzz commented 6 years ago

In Boxer Menu - only del key

amcgregor commented 4 years ago

It would seem to me that Boxer does not respond to that combination at all. The equivalent is ⌘R (reset) under the Emulation menu. You can re-map this to the shortcut of your choice quite easily under System Preferences, Keyboard, Shortcuts, App Shortcuts, but unfortunately Delete is not a valid final key. (Testing out on a keyboard with a real delete key.)

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There may be a limitation in the underlying Cocoa keyboard event handling mechanisms that prevent non-character-producing keys from being used as the actual key for a shortcut. Given the shortcut doesn't actually do anything at the emulation level, I can only hope this is to pass along to an application running within Boxer. You can still generate this key combination on "abbreviated" keyboards that don't have a dedicated forward-delete button by pressing ⌃⌥ Fn+Backspace. Fn+Backspace = forward-delete.