Trapping keypresses outside of application

[Matt]

Hi all,

I have written a small application that runs from the system tray. I need
to be able to identify when a user has pressed certain key combinations in
any aplication and then respond to them in my app. I have looked into system
wide hooking but it seems very complicated and I have read that this can only
be done using a C# dll. Can anyone help with this or at least point me in
the right direction ?

Thanks,
Matt.

[Shiva]

Hi,
You might want to look at this one:
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/GlobalSystemHook.asp

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Hi all,

I have written a small application that runs from the system tray. I need
to be able to identify when a user has pressed certain key combinations in
any aplication and then respond to them in my app. I have looked into
system
wide hooking but it seems very complicated and I have read that this can
only
be done using a C# dll. Can anyone help with this or at least point me in
the right direction ?

Thanks,
Matt.

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "=?Utf-8?B?TWF0dA==?=" <Ma**@discussio ns.microsoft.co m> scripsit:

I have written a small application that runs from the system tray. I need
to be able to identify when a user has pressed certain key combinations in
any aplication and then respond to them in my app.

You'll need a keyboard hook to capture these keystrokes system-wide:

Article on keyboard hooks:

<URL:http://www.developer.c om/net/net/article.php/11087_2193301_1/>

Documentation on hooks:

<URL:http://msdn.microsoft. com/library/en-us/dnwui/html/msdn_hooks32.as p>
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft. com/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinte rface/windowing/hooks.asp>

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