Re: getting keyboard input

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From: Vladimir Afanasyev
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 07:06

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"DRE" <dre00x@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Good Day,
>
>I want to capture the keyboard input from the active window(the foreground
>window)
>and I'm not experinced with windows api but from searching I understood that
>I will need to use the "GetWindowText" , "SetForegroundWindow" and
>"SendMessage" functions to perform this task but I still don't know how to
>utilize them, and I seek any example that explains how to use these
>functions and what parameters do I need to pass to them.

As a rule in such case you need to use systemwise keyboard hook.
In this conference some weeks ago Michel Leunen gave 
perfect reference: http://tinyurl.com/g7ty

Vladimir.

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