Windows API: Detecting keystrokes using SetWindowsHookExe
2003-04-11 -- Robert Rodgers
Newsgroups: softvelocity.products.c55ee
Hi Simon,
You need a system wide (or global) keyboard hook.
SetWindowsHookEx
See http://www.attryde.com/clarion/col_msgfltr.htm
for some general information.
rob
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"Simon Burrows" wrote in message
news:3e967595@news.softvelocity.com...
> I have a need to be able to detect when somebody has typed in a particular
> phrase in another non Clarion app. This could be any app, so I can't be
> specific and use OLE to Word or anything like that.
>
> So for example, somebody could be in Notepad and type in Solace and I need
> to be able to detect that. The actual mechanics of putting the phrase
> together is not a problem, but it is detecting keystrokes that users have
> typed into other apps that I need to look for. In other words I want to
be
> able to read all keystrokes regardless of what application has focus.
>
> Anyone got any ideas how to do this? I am almost certain that it will not
> be available in the Clarion language as I have tried running a simple
source
> program with no Window which loops round looking at Keyboard() but and
that
> does not do anything when another app has focus.
>
> Cheers
> Simon Burrows
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