Translation of WM_KEYDOWN and Timer placement

Hi all in my application i have two hooks and these are Journal Recrod and GetMessage Hook, due to some reasons now i want to minimize the code and logic that i have wrriten in GetMessage Hook.

The first query in this regard is that how can i translate a WM_KEYDOWN message to WM_CHAR because i am receving a WM_CHAR inside GetMessage and this would not be availble to me in JOURNAL RECORD.

Another question is that in the WM_LBUTTONDOWN of GetMessage i am setting up a timer and then appropriate code inase of WM_TIMER is also in GetMessage, is it possible that i setup the Timer in JOURNAL RECORD and then capture the WM_TIMER message in WNDPROC hook because i might be using WNDPROC instead of GetMessage

hope that i have made clear my point
thanx in advance
regards

Basim

To answer your first question, can't you use the TranslateMessage Function to translate your virtual key messages into character messages, just as in a regular windows program?