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On Mac OS X (10.13) the keystrokes I type into the debugger and also being sent the to driver. I think this doesn't happen on Windows.

I've looked into fixing the situation, but it looks complicated. I think I'll somehow have to add any debugger windows created to osd_common_t::s_window_list.

Then keep osd_common_t::s_window_list ordered based on getting, and losing focus to the various windows.

Then somehow filter specific keystrokes out if the main window isn't an emulation window.

If anyone has some advice I'd sure appreciate it.

As far as I'm aware debugger keystrokes go to the emulation on all platforms. There's definitely some weirdness on the Mac in terms of how the debugger updates. I need to get back to making OSD=mac (full native Cocoa) work, because as long as we're running on SDL we can't solve that.

Tim is correct; debugger keystrokes stay in the debugger in Windows and don't leak into the emulation. It's only certain keystrokes from the UI that can leak.

Perhaps keys might leak if I chose another debugger, but I only tried the default Windows one.

All UI keys leak; that's been a problem for as long as MESS has existed.

Just a suggestion : there were keyboard controls that could disable/enable keyboards from the Keyboard Mode menu that came in recently, maybe you could leverage that somehow?