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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / keystate

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D Man
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Posted: 17th Feb 2003 22:11
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Is there any possibility to get the key currently pressed by the user if the user is not in a dark basic program?
I mean if I start a DBPro program, which starts a none DBPro program and I want to test if the user already pressed a key and which one.
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MrTAToad
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Posted: 17th Feb 2003 22:22
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You would need to get the non-DB program to send a message back to the DB program, whenever a key is pressed. Wouldn't be that hard, as long as both programs are running...

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D Man
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Posted: 17th Feb 2003 22:48
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How could I achieve this, if this non-DB program where...let's say Microsoft Word(or simply the notepad)?

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MrTAToad
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Posted: 17th Feb 2003 22:53
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You can only do it if its your own program (where you can define how you send data back). It wont work for, say, Word, unless you write a macro that can detect all keypresses and say, writes them to a file.

Its much easier doing it the other way around...

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D Man
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Posted: 17th Feb 2003 22:56
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Too bad .

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IanM
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Posted: 18th Feb 2003 01:25
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Couldn't you sub-class the window from the source program? I don't know whether you can do this to a window you don't own though.
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Posted: 18th Feb 2003 10:56
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No idea - never tried it...

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