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Controlling non selected application with key events

Controlling non selected application with key events

handshaker	2 Jul, 2009 - 07:14 AM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 2 Jul, 2009 Posts: 6	Hi fellas, I wanna make a program that is sensitive to the keys when its window is non selected. Its like some music player's global hotkeys. When im using another application, if i press a key my program must react. How can i do this? Does backgroundworker work for this? What do you advice me to use?
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RudiVisser	RE: Controlling Non Selected Application With Key Events 2 Jul, 2009 - 07:58 AM Post #2
.. does not guess solutions Joined: 5 Jun, 2009 Posts: 1,872 Thanked: 137 times Dream Kudos: 125 Expert In: PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, C# My Contributions	You should use a thread that checks GetAsyncKeyState, that works globally (application-wise) so you should use it to check for the hotkeys that you would like to use. I heard of a "Global Keyboard Hook" using SetWindowsHookEx at one point, but GetAsyncKeyState would be much easier, imo. This post has been edited by MageUK: 2 Jul, 2009 - 08:00 AM
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handshaker	RE: Controlling Non Selected Application With Key Events 2 Jul, 2009 - 10:10 PM Post #3
New D.I.C Head Joined: 2 Jul, 2009 Posts: 6	Thanks bro. Can you give an example written in c# i imported the method by this way: [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, ExactSpelling = true)] public static extern short GetAsyncKeyState(int vkey); However I can't use it in program correctly.
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