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Oren Halvani wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
I just noticed a component (recently updated) on Torrie's site for
setting system-wide hotkeys. It is here (listed as HotKeyManager
v.1.7.0 by Troels Jakobsen)

http://www.torry.net/pages.php?id=238

and on the author's homepage at

http://subsimple.com/delphi.asp

I haven't used it but his other components are good. Written in Delphi 
but you get source so it can be installed in Builder.

Regards,

Jim Dodd
Onset Computer Corp.