Re: Application wide and System wide "OnKeyDown"

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From: Hans Galema
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:27

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John wrote:

>     1-) If our application consists of many forms, including forms loaded 
> dynamically from DLLs, how we can centralize the "OnKeyDown" event handler?

Maybe this hint will do:
Assign an eventhandler for TApplication OnMessage.
React on WM_KEYDOWN.
See help for TApplication OnMessage.

>     2-) Similar to the "OnKeyDown" event handler, I want to be able to 
> capture/monitor  if a particular key combination is pressed in Windows 
> regardless of which application is active/infocus at a given time. How can I 
> do this ?

Google for windows keyboarhook.

Hans.

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