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From: Smola
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 12:45

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"Jesus Christ Superstar" <chipsencola@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> hi
>
> I'm trying to make a programm that can catch keystrokes while not focused,
> I should be able to catch the keystrokes, but if I'm typing in e.g.
notepad
> the text should be visible.
> Is that possible ????

You must put your key handling functions in a dll and register it as
system-wide keyboard-hook. Search for the topic "About Hooks" in the
Win32SDK help.


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