🚀 go-pugleaf

dear builders,

i need to to generate 2 system-wide hotkeys for copy / paste
text into / from RichEdit controls..the hotkeys must be:
F8 for copy and F9 for pasting (the customers order)
later i will need to define more as only 2 system-wide
hotkeys, but for now just those 2...

now, i don't want to use RegisterHotkey because i've been told
very often not to use it..also the same for the like keybd_event( ) function..

one big reason why i cannot use the RegisterHotKey( ) is that it
want overwrite existing hotkeys like F12 because that key is reserved
for use by the debugger at all times, correct..?

and the reason not to use keybd_event( ) is that an unknown window
could come to the foreground will receive the pressed keys and
than = FATAL problem :-(

using a keyboard hook is also a problem because i need to create
a standalone exe..

Remy says in the earlier posts to use the WM_COPY / WM_PASTE
messages via: SendMessage( ) but how do i use them for the current
active window, if my application works in the background..?
i cannot use FindWindow( ) because the user has to decide where
he want to send the WM_COPY / WM_PASTE...

another option is to use the new function SendInput( ) i've heard it's
simillar to the "old fashioned" keybd_event( ) but it's more safer, right...?

so, can someone maybe drop me some suggestions what to choose
to solve that problem..?



Oren