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hi all fist sorry for bad English :) I have a problem in making a program with vb.net I need the program do this when I press (z) the program press (0) (Escape) (backspace) (enter) I know how to make it but! I must select my program to work I need it to work when I press (z) anywhere thanks :)

Posted 2-Oct-14 18:51pm

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Sinisa Hajnal 3-Oct-14 2:12am

Just to clarify:
You need your program to read / intercept keypress within any process / program on the computer?

What happens when you press "z" in text editor? Should you get letter z or 0 which will be deleted immediately with backspace and newline?

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George Jonsson · Answer 1 · 2014-10-03T00:36:00

Solution 2

An alternative to Global Hooks is to use Windows Raw Input API.
You can use this article as a starting point:
Using Raw Input from C# to handle multiple keyboards[^]

Posted 3-Oct-14 0:36am

George Jonsson

CPallini · Answer 2 · 2014-10-02T22:11:00

Solution 1

I think you have to implement a keyboard global hook. Google helps[^].

Posted 2-Oct-14 22:11pm

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