I have a real problem with hooks

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Originally Posted by snakekain

Thank you for your reply, sorry for taking a lot of your time, i need a system-wide hotkey but i don't want it to prevent every other application from recieving the key because that will annoy the user, i want my app in the system tray recieving the hot key messages, while the user works with other apps uninterrupted.

In the example i gave the user will be bothered a lot finding that pressing Q will not write Q in the note pad or any other app while my app is working.

If that'll not work i guess working with system-wide hooks will do because it doesn't prevent other apps from recieving the messages except if i returned 1, and that means i'll have to find a work around to work with the hotkey format returned from CHotKeyCtrl. Thanks again alot, you really helped me out.

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Well ... Another possible solution this: Use GetForegroundWindow() and send him the WM_KEYDOWN message explicity. After a some days of thinking I haven't found any other workaround for this. :blush: Though I haven't seen any application so far that uses a normal key (like 'Q') as an system wide hotkey. Because such hotkeys are commonly used in combinition with Ctrl, Alt or Shift.

Thanks very much every body especially NoHero, SuperKoko and JohnCz I finally built up my first product on line you can download it from here
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I had a hyprid solution from you it's to Setup a keyboad_LL hook and check for (alt, ctrl or shift) being down using GetAsyncKeyState inside the hook procedure that way you can format it with the CHotKeyCtrl.GetHotKey, Thanks every body again.