How To Set Global Keyboard Hook On Separate Thread
Apr 29, 2012
After 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.
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Feb 20, 2010
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
' inspired by:
' http://jo0ls-dotnet-stuff.blogspot.com/2008/12/vbnet-global-keyboard-hook-to-detect.html
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Oct 26, 2009
I have an object that is defined as a global variable based on custom class. Within that class I have an event that gets fired a certain intervals. These events are fired on the same thread as where the object is declared. How do I create a global object, but have the events within that object fire on a separate thread?
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Jul 3, 2010
I have a program that u record your clicks then you press a button (Ctrl + E) then it plays them back. What I want is for Ctrl+E to stop them, It would work but it seems like its being overpowered by the mousemoving and clicking. The keyhook did already work before I started on the playback part.
Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As System.Windows.Forms.Message)
If m.Msg = WM_HOTKEY Then
If m.WParam = 2 Then
If started2 = True Then
started2 = False
ElseIf started2 = False Then
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Jul 14, 2011
I 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
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Dec 18, 2009
I'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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Feb 26, 2009
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
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Apr 16, 2010
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]
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Apr 10, 2009
How do I setup the mouse hook and keyboard hook?
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Jan 23, 2010
I'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.
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Jun 29, 2010
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This was the code and this is the thread HERE Ok its working and everything but when i want to perform something when click is noticed it says i cant cross-threads
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Apr 17, 2010
i 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.
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Mar 20, 2009
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]...
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Aug 15, 2011
I'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).
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May 23, 2012
Trying 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.
CODE:
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May 3, 2009
I 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.
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Jan 17, 2010
I'm attempting to intercept and interrupt mouse events. Lets say I wanted to disable the right mouse button down event, or even the mouse move event. I haven't been able to figure out the interrupting part.
I am using the (I assume pretty widely used) following code for Global Hooking of the mouse.
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Apr 17, 2010
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,
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May 16, 2010
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.
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Oct 24, 2010
I'm trying to create a CBT hook to an application, in this case Notepad.
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EDIT: I have also tried it on a Windows XP system now, and it doesn't work there either.
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Dec 31, 2010
I'm reading data from a serial port, but the DataReceived event of SerialPort is handled on it's own thread. I want to handle this on the main thread, but simply declaring an event and raising it still results in it being processed on the SerialPort thread. I'm assuming I need to declare a delegate I can call, but I don't see how that would work.
For example, I want to call Sub HandleDataReceived() on the main thread from the DataReceived thread, having HandleDataReceived() run on the main thread. How would I do this?
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Oct 27, 2011
I have a few forms that have a lot of really intensive updating along with a great deal of user interface (text boxes, button clicking etc) Is it possible to open a separate form as a separate UI thread from the start up form that called it to "show" or open or whatever the new method might be?
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Dec 7, 2011
I am having some trouble getting some code to work. Here it is:
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Mar 1, 2011
Im creating a service for a mobile platform and I need to process user messages on a different thread than they were created on to leave the threadpool open.Anyway my App will be using a MySQL database and when it gets a message it will add the message to Another thread pool. But in the sub that procceses the messages I will need to perform query's on the database. So i know i can use a global variable and it will be visible to all threads but is making database operations safe while using a thread pool with a global mysqlconnection?
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Jun 11, 2010
What I do is I have a variable on form1 and its an integer which has a value on load of 0 and named count.When I click the 'doSomething' button it is increased by 1 and when I use the function 'msgBox' I get to see 1.After that I start a thread which is going to look up count but when I check the value there is 0.
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Sep 24, 2010
Is there a way I can run a loop in a seperate thread and increment a progress bar each time the loop iterates? I am trying to run a loop that will take a long time to complete and I dont want the form to be completely crashed out while the loop is running. There are only two ways I can think to solve the problem. The first way is to run the loop on a timer. This is extremely slow. The other way is to use a thread.
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Jun 2, 2012
I just finished up my space invaders movement and with all the other timers running it really bogs it down. So I think the best solution would be to make the timers run on separate threads. I know roughly how to do this from a old example I read a long time ago. So I just need a simple sample code to refresh my memory please. Maybe something with message boxes or something to demonstrate the process.
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Mar 6, 2011
how can i allow a progressbar to be changed on a seperate thread? my code keeps saying that i cannot access it because it was created on a seperate thread:
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If it is not worth it, it is not fun - you say programmers are boring but i say they are worth it.
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Jun 10, 2011
So, I'm having troubles implementing a separate thread. This is because I have a simple class, and in it I start a new thread. So, as it is not any form, I haven't found any way to make it call the function in the UI Thread.
So, I cannot use the Invoke method. Is there any way to call a function from another thread?
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Jan 10, 2010
I would like my application to do something (in one form) and while form is doing that i would like to show another form to the user. Code is:
Private Sub blaa()
Dim a As New Working() 'working is another form
a.Show()
'Do some stuff
a.Close()
End Sub
But when i make new form i find it is on the same (main thread) and therefore new form also frozes. How to make new form on separate thread?
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