From bac1f24a53aaf53ba22cd348f600176ba59e80fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: crs <cschoeneman@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 21:50:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Synergy now steals window activation when using low level
 hooks and a console window is the active window.  This is to work around
 console windows preventing the hook from detecting the shift key.

---
 lib/platform/CMSWindowsDesks.cpp | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/platform/CMSWindowsDesks.cpp b/lib/platform/CMSWindowsDesks.cpp
index 8c71b4b5..18e8bb0f 100644
--- a/lib/platform/CMSWindowsDesks.cpp
+++ b/lib/platform/CMSWindowsDesks.cpp
@@ -558,6 +558,10 @@ CMSWindowsDesks::deskEnter(CDesk* desk)
 	SetWindowPos(desk->m_window, HWND_BOTTOM, 0, 0, 0, 0,
 							SWP_NOMOVE | SWP_NOSIZE |
 							SWP_NOACTIVATE | SWP_HIDEWINDOW);
+
+	// this is here only because of the "ConsoleWindowClass" stuff in
+	// deskLeave.
+	EnableWindow(desk->m_window, desk->m_lowLevel ? FALSE : TRUE);
 }
 
 void
@@ -600,6 +604,26 @@ CMSWindowsDesks::deskLeave(CDesk* desk, HKL keyLayout)
 			SetActiveWindow(desk->m_window);
 		}
 
+		// if the active window is a console then activate our window.
+		// we do this because for some reason our hook reports unshifted
+		// characters when the shift is down and a console window is
+		// active.  interestingly we do see the shift key go down and up.
+		// note that we must enable the window to activate it and we
+		// need to disable the window on deskEnter.
+		// FIXME -- figure out the real problem here and solve it.
+		else {
+			HWND foreground = GetForegroundWindow();
+			if (foreground != NULL) {
+				char className[40];
+				if (GetClassName(foreground, className,
+								sizeof(className) / sizeof(className[0])) &&
+					strcmp(className, "ConsoleWindowClass") == 0) {
+					EnableWindow(desk->m_window, TRUE);
+					SetActiveWindow(desk->m_window);
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
 		// switch to requested keyboard layout
 		ActivateKeyboardLayout(keyLayout, 0);
 	}