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Boo

Hi All,

I am fully aware of the Hotkey capabilities of VDS, but is there a way to determine if a hotkey slot is already taken? That is, let's say a user sets a hotkey combination in a VDS application that is a hotkey already being used by another application..., Is there a way to notify the user to select a different hotkey combination?

Thanks,

- Boo

JerryDee · Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 4:43 pm Post subject:

Hi Boo,

I'm not sure I understand you well - I think that in Windows "Hotkey combination" pays allways only for the "focused" application. Or am I mistaken?

Boo · Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:35 pm Post subject:

Hi,

What I am wondering is if a certain application is already using a hot key combination (such as Alt+H), and I try to set Alt+H in my VDS application, how will I know that Alt+H is already being used? I can manually press Alt+H in my application to see it works, but what I would like to do is notify the user that the combination is already in use without manually having to test it.

Thanks,

- Boo

JerryDee · Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:30 pm Post subject:

Well, I think you are afraid uselessly about it!
All applications can have the same hotkeys - but only the one which is actualy "in focus" respond at the hotkey. Can you imagine you have several running applications on your desktop. If you click on a window of some application, this application obtains the focus and is able to receive a hotkey combination - no other!

Boo · Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:10 pm Post subject:

Hi Again,

I am referring to Global hot keys (meaning one hot-key combination is reserved for only one application--no others--regardless of focus).

Cheers,

- Boo

JerryDee · Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:35 pm Post subject:

A work with global hotkeys isn't so simple. Once I concerned about it and found this link:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/nishhotkeys01.aspx

maybe it inspires you.

Garrett · Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:12 am Post subject:

The VDS hotkeys are global... Repeat! They are global. Your program does not have to be in focus in order for your hotkeys to work. I personally have 2 programs that use hotkeys and don't even have an interface, they run like a service.

As for detecting if another application already has a hotkey combination, I'm not sure if there is a way to determine this through VDS. There might be, but I currently am not aware of it myself.

PGWARE · **Web Host** Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 1565

RegisterHotKey Function: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms646309.aspx

It looks like the function fails if you try to register an existing hotkey. I dont have any code to do this in VDS but it's very likely it can be done with GadgetX.