My Joystick Problem

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Hello, I have a joystick and I made a program to detect when a button from the joystick is pressed and simulate a mouse click. When I run my application everything works fine, but when I minimize it to system tray (this.Visible = false; notifyIcon1.Visible = true; I have a notify Icon in my app) it doesn't respond anymore when I press a button (from the joystick). What should I do to get respond when it's minimized?

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William Winner · Accepted Answer · 2010-03-04T11:09:00

You're going to have to do a global hook. When you "minimize" the form, it no longer has the focus.

Try SetWindowsHookEx with whatever message represents your joystick button message is. An example can be found at

How to set a Windows hook in Visual C# .NET[^]

But from what I can tell, global hooks generally are not supported by .Net. From the above webpage:

"Except for the WH_KEYBOARD_LL low-level hook and the WH_MOUSE_LL low-level hook, you cannot implement global hooks in the Microsoft .NET Framework."