On Jul 11, 2016, at 6:28 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:

> On 11 July 2016 at 23:20, Programmingkid <programmingk...@gmail.com> 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.)

When a feature is added that doesn't exist before, it is called innovation :)

It would make things easier on the people working on Mac OS 9 support. 

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