hotkey

"john hill" <john_hill_9@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<cs_db.8664$5r1.3964@twister.southeast.rr.com>...[color=blue]
> Hi
> I would like to thank everyone for suggestions concerning hotkeys and keyup.
> What I am using is CE .Net though if there is a solution that also works in
> regular windows that would be good. I am willing to give most anything a
> try.
>
> What I have is a program that sits in the background and waits for a
> keystroke to run certain functions. One for keydown and one for keyup. The
> functions talk to an external device on a serial connection, but the main
> thing is that I need a method to get those keystrokes no matter what
> application is on top.
>
> The impression that I get is that Hotkey will send the keyup and keydown at
> the same time if at all and that hooks do not work under CE. If anyone has a
> suggestion that proves those impressions wrong or an idea how to get around
> it, then I would be really greatful.
>
> Thanks
> John
> john_hill_99 at hotmail.com[/color]

Here's how the VNC does the mouse and keyboard captures.

[url]http://www.slink-software.com/W/SrcDoc_Top/vnc-3.3.7/vnc-3.3.7-winsrc.sdoc/N_8[/url]

[url]http://www.slink-software.com/W/SL_TopGetSL/vnc-3.3.7/vnc-3.3.7-winsrc.slk/ID_LowLevelKeyboardFilterProc/FILE_winvnc/vnchooks/VNCHooks.cpp/L_300/LN_280#L_277[/url]

I believe VNC has been ported to the CE environment. If you can
control
..NET CE from the normal windows desktop, then someone has find a way
to
hook into the pocket PC environment for keyboard capture.

Good Luck.
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