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 REQUIRED DATE- OPEN          USER PRIORITY WEIGHT-  75    RANKING-  0032
 DATE RECEIVED- MAY 02, 1997  REQUEST STANDING  - REVIEW   AS OF- MAY 12, 1997
                              TYPE- MOD/IMP

 DESCRIPTION-

        This is sorely needed in a multi-tasking system such as OS/2.
        Say you're working away in your favorite word processor in the
        foreground.  Of course you're multitasking some other program
        in the background - let's say it's MSR's BackMaster (tape
        backup).  An unfortunate thing is, that as BackMaster is
        working, it occassionally pops into focus with some kind of
        dialog requesting your input - with an "O" for "Okay" or a
        "C" for close.  But before you realize this has happened,
        you're still typing into your word processor and have
        inadvertenly typed an "o".  Arrrrggh!!!  (Not all programs
        require an "Alt-letter" combination to confirm a dialog box
        request.)  What's needed is a user settable "keyboard inhibit
        delay on focus change," whereby,  when a program moves to the
        focus, any input from the keyboard is inhibited (in fact,
        dumped) for a user settable time (say, a half second).  That
        way, we can stop typing in our word processor, think about
        what we're about to do, and then safely do it.

        ATTRIBUTES:

        LOW Value
        Desired next FIXPACK

        Submitted by:

        Mike Palmer
        Phoenix, AZ, USA
        mppalmer@aol.com

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