I´m using the SetWindowsHookEx API to hook the keyboard, and it works, but when I get vkCode from the structKBDLLHOOKSTRUCT it gives me way too high numbers instead of the ASCII byte I expect to receive. Also, the numberchanges each time I press the same key, so obviously something is wrong. I´m on Windows XP 32 bits, VB 2008 Express, Net. Framework 3.5 SP2. This is the relevant code (condensed, will
View 3 RepliesI'm writing a code to use it in a keyboard spy program , and I'm using hook techneque with this , but the problem is that : if I ForExamle clicked on Shift and number 2 it doesn't give me At (@), I want it to give me at (@) ..
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i am trying to create a keyboard hook so when i type out something my app will pop up, regardless of which app has focus at the time.i coded this already in a form which then opens up a second form but now i trying to make it so my module opens first, and then it will open up my secondary form.but the issue i am having is when the module loads and starts the keyhooking, i get an error on the following code saying"Overflow Exception was unhandled, Arthmetic operation resulted in an overflow".[code]
View 1 RepliesI have a program that uses low-level keyboard hooks, because it's a program that needs to be able to catch keystrokes, even when holding down capslock or what so ever.
Anyway, I figured out (by making a sample program running at the same time on purpose consuming 95% CPU by making an infinite loop with nothing in it) that low-level keyboard hooks stops working if the CPU usage is that high, and you do a lot of typing what so ever.
I want to hook low level Mouse hook in vb, and after that I want to save the X-axis, Y-axis and clicks(Right/Left) into database for later use or automation..But I don't understand that how should I save the X-axis, Y-axis and clicks into a MS SQL databse and later retrieve them?
View 2 RepliesI want to hook keyboard with vb , so that whenever my application written in vb runs it will capture all the keys pressed from the keyboard and show all the keys being pressed in a textbox on window's form
View 1 RepliesHow do I setup the mouse hook and keyboard hook?
View 1 RepliesI'm using a textbox to define a hotkey, and I need to make the textbox receive key events and prevent the form from receiving them.The reason it's a problem is because Tab (and probably other keys) is a valid key, but the form uses that as a shortcut, so the textbox never receives the keypress.
View 5 RepliesAfter many searches i end up using this class for global keyboard hooking. Link: Global Hook post [code]My app is performing operations that take some seconds to complete (ftp upload small files on interval), and during this time the hook lovks the keyboard. This i dont want of course..I cant jump to Async FtpWebRequest right now because it needs many changes, so i thought that the solution would be to make the hoook live in another thread.A proposal is to move my time - consuming operations (upload) to another thread.Upon doing this i am facing other problems. Because the time consuming task (upload) is in a timer i would have to rewrite a big portion in order to synchronize the file->save with the file->upload and i dont mind the app locking for 3-4 secs. what i do mind is to loose the kayboard for 3-4 secs.
View 2 Repliesi am trying to make a app that loads a keyboardhook from a module on startup,
but unless i load the keyhook from the form the app just closes immediately.
i uploaded the keyhook module, to test it just start a new project, add the module,
to test it loading from the form just put hookkeyboard in the form load,
but what im tyring to do is have the module load first, so set the start up object to sub main
what this is suppose to do right now is just send a msgbox on every keystroke, it works from the form load but fails when loading from module, unless i am always typing something.
I suspect I've overlooked something simple, but can't seem to figure out what... The following code should to block all key strokes that match those stored in alMasterList while in Excel. While the code effectively identifies if a key is pressed that matches a record in alMasterList, it does not block Excel from processing the keystroke. how I can prevent the key from passing to Excel?[code]...
View 3 RepliesI'm trying to hook the keyboard in vb.net. Who can show me an example where you press button "F2" and a message box appear (MsgBox("You've pressed F2")). I need to hook the keyboard to make some action when DirectX application is running (I've Already tried with "registerhotkey" but do not works in dx app).
View 4 RepliesTrying to convert my home app from vb6 to .net but have a problem. I am using the code in the tut by Paul Kimmel but it is returning Err.LastDllError = 126. I am using this code as posted on Win7 and VS2010. KeyboardHandle is retuning 0 but Im not sure which part of it is the problem. There is a lot of new stuff there for me.
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i am trying to make a app that loads a keyboardhook from a module on startup, but the problem i am having is unless i load the keyhook from the form, the app just closes immediately.
what im trying to accomplish in the end is the module will will check a 'user settings' file, depending on the settings it will show a form or load the keyhook. but this is where my problem is, if i set the keyboardhook to load from the sub main in the module the app will just close immediately unless (as far as i can tell) i am always typing something
if i set it to load from the form it stays open, ive tried creating a second module and loading the keyhook from their but it still closes i uploaded a copy of the keyhook module if anyone want to test it / check out the code... all it does right now is pop up a msgbox on every keystoke, for testing purposes,
My final goal is that striking F12 prints the date (through SendKeys) in the application/window having currently the focus (Word, Excel, Outlook, whatever). I have consequently implemented a globak keyboard hook (system-wide), which is running well (source code below).
My concern is that I would like to prevent any other local treatment based on F12. For instance, striking F12 under Microsotft Word prints the date is the open document (which is fine!) but also launches the "Save as..." dialog box, since F12 is a local shortcut/keybinding under Word. (Actually, the date is printed within a field of a the "Save as..." dialog box). I want to avoid this.
In other words, my aim is to improve the "hook" below so that striking F12 does what I want (which is already the case) but nothing more. That is to say, I would like that, except my treatment, the system "forgets" that F12 was striken.
' Option Strict On
Option Explicit On
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' http://jo0ls-dotnet-stuff.blogspot.com/2008/12/vbnet-global-keyboard-hook-to-detect.html
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I'm using a barcode reader which emulates a keyboard with swedish layout. I'm using RegisterRawInputDevices to create a lowlevel hook, catching windows messages and checking which device that sent the keyboard input. If it's the barcodereader, I would like to store the input. I receive the key input one by one in this class - how do I translate this into a string? If the character to be sent is an #, then the keys sent are Shift+3.
View 2 RepliesI have been trying to build an application for which I need to set low-level keyboard hooks. I thing I am trying to accomplish is that when I press the key "a" I want windows to think I have pressed the key "b". But the problem I am facing is that when I press key "a" it produces "ab". I am providing my code below.Also I would like to know how to detect double and triple key presses (e.g. shift + a and ctrl + alt + b). [code]
View 2 RepliesI am having some trouble getting some code to work. Here it is:
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I am creating an Excel add-in written in VB.NET. I would like to bind KeyDown and KeyUp events to the spreadsheet to record when the user presses and releases the arrow keys while navigating the spreadsheetIdeally, these events would be built into Excel alongside the native SheetActivate and SheetSelectionChange events, for example. Alas, they are not.
View 1 RepliesIn Visual Basic 2008, there's two different ways that I know of to accomplish the same thing:The Dim on the member level:
Dim counter1 as integer = 0
Dim counter2 as integer = 180
Public Sub SampleSub1()
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I have created a simple program which uses a two tier structure of SQL Tables.At the top level, one record holds the date of the activities and linked to it using its primary key as a foreign key, three subordinate tables hold time stamped records.The issue I have been unable to solve is that before adding any of the lower level records for a given date, a newly added top level record must be saved to the database.Doing this manually is simple - but can I rely on my users to remember to do this before they start plugging in the lower level data?I thought not, so I am looking to save the top level automatically.I've failed miserably but I refuse to believe that it's not possible.
View 14 RepliesI have multiple level of For Each and in each level, i have a Linq that is the 'In' criteria as in:
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It will go inside each for (because the value is not nothing), however, it will only loop (next) in the very inner 'For Each t In tFor'. After it is finish inner loops, the outer Fors' or Next will not execute... even thought there are more than one values in that 'In'... like 'sFor' or 'fFor'. i've noticed while debuging, while break at the for (for example 'sFor', before stepping in), i get the error message:
"Enumeration yielded no results" when i expand the result for that variable and it will not step into it. but if i do not expand the result, it will step in. It seem that some how, once an element is accessed for that 'In' collection, it breaks (meaning does not loop for the rest of the elements) the next for that collection is this a bug or am i missing something in Linq? BTW: i believe it has something to do with the SqlDataReader in the Linq. I'm working with IAsyncResult.
I have created a virtual keyboard like the "Windows onscreen keyboard". So, I have used the method sendkeys.But if I click on the button, it doesn't write nothing.
I think I have a problem with the FOCUS.As you can see, the "Windows onscreen keyboard" is always on top.This doesn't happen to my form. How can I do?
U0161 import a Platinum level Advisor .jar to use with this Platinum level product key.How I can get this and import it to continue my completion of setup of mysql download?From where I can download that file?To enable this application, please provide a MySQL Enterprise Product Key or your MySQL Enterprise credentials.
View 1 Repliesalmost perfectly works to disable specific keys. but 1problem. for example : checkbox1 checked and then press button1 L win key disable its okey.but then i press button2 to active keys and press again button1.this time not working disabling keys.
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Is there any way I can install a global hook or something else on the start of external process. WH_CBT hook, as it appears can only intercept events for processes that have windows, but what if I want to intercept the start/stop of a windowless application or a windows service? Is there any way to do it using .NET?Generally, I want my application to receive a notification of some process being launched knowing only an executable name.Presently I simply use a timer to iterate through running processes, but I wonder if there a better way to do it?
View 4 RepliesI have an app where I need to hook into a particular control's horizontal scroll event. I'm not real experienced in hooking into Windows events.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying do capture the Excel event Sheet_Activate and put some information in a list box control. I can capture the event, but when I try to add some information in the list box controle, an error message is showed. Here is my code:
Imports Excel = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel
Public Class WorkbookInfo
Private WithEvents _ExcelApp As Excel.Application
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url...This example works on a my 32 bit XP machine, but it does not work on my Vista Ultimate 64 bit machine. The example is supposed to hook notepad so that whenever I type a character in notepad, a text box recieves the same character. This works on XP, but on Vista 64, nothing happens.I should probably say that when I first ported the example to Vista, I ran into 2 problems, which I think I correctly fixed.
1. I was getting a BadImageFormatException when the DLL was first trying to be accessed. I fixed this by setting the target platform in the VB project to be x86.
2. I was getting a DllNotFoundExeception, so I placed the "MainHook.dll" file in both:[code]I have a couple of theories, but I'm a bit of a beginner when it comes to hooking. Could this be happening because Notepad is a 64 bit application and the hook is written in 32 bit? I have the express version of VC++, so I can't create a dll targetted to 64 bit, so I haven't tried that.
I have a form that is displayed, not by ShowDialog, but by setting its visible property to true. This is so it behaves like a dropdown.The form installs a mouse hook, using SetWindowsHookEx(WH_MOUSE, ...).
I detect if the mouse is clicked outside of the dropdown and if so, return 1 in my HookProc method and close the dropdown.The strange thing is, if I click outside of my drop down on to a textbox, the textbox still receives the mouse click, after my dropdown closes, even though it's been handled by my HookProc method.It gets stranger... If I click on a label or button, they do not receive the mouse click, as expected, after the drop down closes!
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