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Making a program run on a certain keypress in Windows

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Making a program run on a certain keypress in Windows

ericode	17 Jul, 2007 - 09:41 PM Post #1
D.I.C Head Joined: 9 Dec, 2006 Posts: 89 Dream Kudos: 75 My Contributions	Hello all, here is an interesting question: How would I make it so that a certain key press (or sequence of keys) triggers a program to run. I want to get behavior similar to Google Desktop which can pop up a search bar whenever the user presses Ctrl twice in rapid succession (no matter what other window is open at the time). I am primarily interested in doing this in Windows, but would not object if anyone has a way to do this in Linux as well. I think this would be done by making a daemon to run in the background and monitor keys being pressed. The trick is, how can a program listen to what keys are being pressed if it is not the window currently selected?
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dogboi	17 Jul, 2007 - 09:55 PM Post #2
D.I.C Head Joined: 10 Jul, 2007 Posts: 93 Dream Kudos: 25 My Contributions	A quick search on google resulted in an answer. This will work in windows anyhow.
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ericode	18 Jul, 2007 - 05:29 AM Post #3
D.I.C Head Joined: 9 Dec, 2006 Posts: 89 Dream Kudos: 75 My Contributions	Thanks for the link, that was exactly what I was searching for. Google wasn't as fruitful for me when I didn't know about the term "hotkey". QUOTE(dogboi @ 17 Jul, 2007 - 10:55 PM) A quick search on google resulted in an answer. This will work in windows anyhow.
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dogboi	18 Jul, 2007 - 07:20 AM Post #4
D.I.C Head Joined: 10 Jul, 2007 Posts: 93 Dream Kudos: 25 My Contributions	QUOTE(ericode @ 18 Jul, 2007 - 09:29 AM) Thanks for the link, that was exactly what I was searching for. Google wasn't as fruitful for me when I didn't know about the term "hotkey". No problem. It can be hard to find something without the appropriate search terms. lol. When you have the right ones, things pop up right at the top of the list. Otherwise, you could be searching for hours. Glad I could help.
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