Retriving a key pressed in a different Application

Hi Gal,

you could maybe create a thread that runs in the background and listens for key presses, I know I did something similar but for mouse events, it might be that the principle is similar, let me know if you'd be interested in what I have.

Yacine Benahmed

YacineBenahmed at 2007-9-9 >

Hi Gal,

I veryfied my code, however I dont know how you could modify it to listen to keypress events.

private: void Create_MouseListener() { th_MouseListener = new Thread(new ThreadStart(this, &Form1::Listen_To_The_Mouse)); th_MouseListener->set_Priority(ThreadPriority::Lowest); th_MouseListener->Start(); } private void Listen_To_The_Mouse() { String *position; String *str_xy[] = {S"",S""}; //needed for the string containing the coordinates String *sep = " , "; //separates x y while(1) //infinite loop { th_MouseListener->Sleep(1); //Process sleeps 10ms or else takes to much cpu time str_xy[0] = System::Convert::ToString(Control::MousePosition.get_X()); str_xy[1] = System::Convert::ToString(Control::MousePosition.get_Y()); position = String::Join(sep, str_xy); txt_Valeur->Text = position; txt_Valeur->AppendText(System::Convert::ToString0(Control::get_MouseButtons())); System::GC::Collect(); //garbage collection } }

Yacine Benahmed

YacineBenahmed at 2007-9-9 >