making my window form invisible in c#

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Hi users,

I am working on a window application in c# in which I need to trap keyboard keys.

My problum is, I want to make window forms invisible at run time but I still want that everything should work same as it will work when form is viSible.

Can someone please help me?

Posted 15-Sep-10 18:33pm

pawanvats

Updated 16-Sep-10 21:26pm

Dalek Dave

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senguptaamlan 16-Sep-10 5:32am

please, change the tag from...as per your question it seems that your application is windows based..then tagging it as ASP.NET is misguiding

Dalek Dave 17-Sep-10 3:26am

Edited for Grammar and Readability.

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Arun Jacob · Answer 1 · 2010-09-15T18:54:00

Solution 1

You can use javascript onkeypress event for this,

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/event_onkeypress.as[^]

Posted 15-Sep-10 18:54pm

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Dalek Dave 17-Sep-10 3:27am

That's what I would have suggested!

Bardy85 · Answer 2 · 2010-09-16T00:55:00

Solution 2

In other words you trying to make a keylogger?
Try using

myForm.ShowInTaskbar = false;
myForm.Opacity = 0;

C#

private void Form1_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)
{
    //Capture the key event and write to text file
}

This will only work though when the form is in focus.
Check the following link for additional info.
Keylogger

Posted 16-Sep-10 0:55am

Bardy85

Updated 16-Sep-10 20:24pm

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pawanvats 16-Sep-10 7:32am

ok,now my form is invisible,
but problum is still there,
even now i can't perform any action in my application........

Bardy85 16-Sep-10 7:41am

You trying to capture the keyboard event correct? Otherwords key strokes?
What actions are you trying to get your application to preform?

pawanvats 17-Sep-10 2:00am

sir i mean to say ,by using ur suggestion , i can hide mY form .but i can't perform the operation like capturing keyboard events etc.
i want to hide my form but at run time i should be able to handle keyboar Events.

Dalek Dave 17-Sep-10 3:27am

Good Call.