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Re: Several ways to define 2 system-wide hotkeys, without to install keyboard-hook..

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From: Oren Halvani
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 22:45
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"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> schrieb
im Newsbeitrag news:41a26953$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

> Simply cast the HWND from GetDesktopWindow() to a LONG, or cast the LONG
> from GetWindowLong() to an HWND....

OK, i'll try to cast them both...hope that will work :-)


> Everything works in Delphi because handles are integers to begin with,
> whereas in C++ they are pointers instead.

ohh, so there aren't pointers in delphi..? make's coding a bit easier...

> There is no return called in the Delphi code you showed.  "Result" is just a
> variable (albeit a special variable).  The code is just assigning a variable
> value like any other.  That is why FreeMem() can be called after assigning
> the Result, because the function has not exited yet.  When the function
> finally reaches the last "end" statement (or there is an explitic call to
> "Exit", which is not the case in this situation), then whatever value is
> currently stored in the Result variable gets returned to the caller as the
> function's return value.

thanks for that infos...sorry, i didn't know that 'Result' was just a variable,
i thought really its the equivalent for C++ return...


> Delphi is not a complicated language.
>
>
> Gambit

for you not...thats for sure :-)

i guess even assembler is not a big deal for you? :-)


Oren
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