Detect Keyboard Keys When Out Of Focus?
Jan 14, 2011how can i detect pressed keyboard keys while the focus is not on my running win form or any of its controls ?
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ITunes Media Key Mapper - Detect When Media Keys Are Pressed While App Is Out Of Focus?
May 9, 2010im working on a little app for my self, to make my life a little more convenient. I have some media keys on my laptop, and I would like to use them with itunes while it is minimized. I found a app that did it for me a long time ago, but cant seem to find it now. But I would like to try my hand at my own, and I've managed to do so, but, my app has to be in focus for it to work. is there any way to still detect when these media keys are pressed while my app is out of focus?
View 9 RepliesManaging Keys Of Keyboard?
Nov 27, 2010I Want manage the keys state in my program(in vb 2010) but 'key press event' cant manage more than a key in a time.i want manage keys for commanding something.(for example if "CTRL AND AIT AND Shift And "A" and "S" was pressed do something)
View 2 RepliesBind Keyboard Keys To Events?
Mar 30, 2012How do I bind a keyboard key to an event? Everything I have found so far is related to using the keyboard for shortcuts to buttons on the form. I guess you could say I want to do the opposite.
For example: This is just basic code I did while learning how to use the xBox controller with my windows forms.
If currentState.Buttons.LeftShoulder = ButtonState.Pressed Then
tbLB.Text = " Pressed"
Else
tbLB.Text = " Released"
End If
Instead of changing the text in my textbox I want to have the left shoulder button or maybe my Dpad act as the "Tab" (let me worry about the controller I've got that handled, as not not confuse anyone) key on the keyboard in order to navigate through my form by tabbing upward or downward through a menu. Then maybe use the "A" button on the controller as the "Enter" key.
Where in: Replacing "tbLB.Text = " Pressed"" with code that would press virtually press the "TAB" key.
Of course using the xBox controller is dealing with XNA, but at this point I have figured out some basics of using the controller with my forms, just need to know how to mimic the keyboard keys.
Catch Any Keyboard Keys Pressed From Anywhere?
Jun 21, 2010What I'm trying to do is get the form to catch any key on the keyboard that has been pressed so it will reset a timer?
View 2 RepliesConvert OEM Keys In REAL Keyboard Value
Nov 13, 2010I have the e.keyvalue (or e.keycode) of a pressed Key. Now the problem is, when is pressed a Oem key, to know the real $char of the key, depending from kekboard and language. In few words, starting from the e.keycode (that is not the ascii code), I would like to get the $char that the pressed key whould write in a text box....
View 5 RepliesHow To Open Forms Ussing Keyboard Keys
Apr 19, 2011I would like to be able to press shift+D+A+L to open another form (form2) ussing VB.net how do i do this?
View 1 RepliesKeyboard Hook Not Blocking Keys As Expected
Mar 20, 2009I 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 RepliesMake A Buttonclick Press Keys From Keyboard?
Apr 18, 2010This was Just an idea.Could serve useful.Anyone know how you could code that?
View 4 RepliesVS 2010 Click Button For Keys On Keyboard?
Sep 9, 2011I want to know if i click button1 then it's auto press keys.Tab and then keys.Enter.
View 5 RepliesWay To Just Send Keys And Make Them Appear As If Typed Them On A Keyboard?
Aug 26, 2009I am making an Auto Typer and it was going all good until I came apon a mysterious problem. When sending the space key or enter key with "Send Keys. SendWait" they come up with their numerical equivalent, 32 and 13.For example, a user types "test" into the textbox, and clicks "{Text} {Space} {Text}" in the options menu. The user clicks start and the output is "Text32Text32Text".Is there any way to just send the keys and make them appear as if you typed them on a keyboard?
View 5 RepliesSimple Program That Will Click Certain Keys On Keyboard At A Certain Interval
Oct 21, 2011I want to make a simple program that will click certain keys on my keyboard at a certain interval. I have VB10. Could someone provide me with some code?
View 7 RepliesVS 2008 Disabling Home/End/Next/Prev Keyboard Keys?
Apr 10, 2010how can i disable the Home, End, and the arrow keys Next and Previous?All i need is having all those four keyboard keys disable while my application is running so the app do nothing if one of those is pressed.
View 4 RepliesVS 2008 VB Editor - Keyboard - Press Two Of My Keys Twice To Show
Jan 2, 2011I installed my VB 2008 0n my new laptop with Windows 7. New when i edit a project, i am having a problem with my keybaord. I need to press two of my keys twice to show. The keys are ' and ` This is only happening in VB, My Office and other programs is affected by this. I try the keyboard mapping in Windows.
View 1 RepliesWpf - Moving Keyboard Focus Away From ListBox?
Mar 28, 2009I'm developing a program in WPF (VB) that relies on keyboard navigation only.In my program, I have a listbox that displays up to 20000 items.What I want is that when the listbox has keyboard focus, and I move to the bottom item that is visible (using ArrowDown), I want the focus to move to the next item outside the listbox. I'm using PgUp and PgDown to scroll the listbox contents, and text search to jump to items.Is there a way to detect if the focused/selected item is the last/first visible item in the listbox?If so, I could just use:
ListBox1.MoveFocus(New TraversalRequest(FocusNavigationDirection.Down))
Arrow Keys In MDI Focus Is Lost
Nov 28, 2009I had previously made a simple Pong program which use keyboard to control. The control includes "s" to start the game, "p" to pause, "r" to resume and left, right to move the paddle specifically. This program work with little problem. The first problem I encounter is if I insert even one single button on the form to display instruction, the arrow keys will no longer work. But I get around it by using Menu Strip instead.
Then, I am required to put this program, among others into a MDI program. And this is where the problem happen. If I have this Pong game loaded, and I press "s", "p", or "r" keys, it have no problem, but if I press the "left" or "right" keys, it will not move. I am speculating that maybe the focus is lost when arrow keys is pressed or something similar, but I have absolutely no idea what is happening. I have tried giving focus back to the form if focus is lost, but to no avails. And this is the code for the movement of the paddle. This reside on a form, the movement itself is passed to another class. The MDI parent is on another form. [Code]
VB Or C# - Run App In System Tray And Listen To Keyboard Input Without App In Focus
Mar 28, 2010I want to make an app which on loading sits in the system tray and even after I open another program (say notepad or vlc or anything) i.e. even when the app is not in focus and if I press "G" on my keyboard, the tray icon should show a tool tip - "key G is pressed". I have tried several codes but nothing works when the app goes out of focus. I can use Register Hot Key [url] but it needs a modifier also (like Ctrl or Alt etc. along with my key G). So, is there any way I can achieve this? something which many tray icons do like antivirus apps, etc. and I do not want to use AutoHotkey application.
View 2 RepliesVS 2008 Focus Textbox (numerical Keyboard On Screen)?
Jan 19, 2011I have a form with some textbox and a numerical keyboard on screen. The following code works well if only it had 1 textbox..
Private Sub botones_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles bt0.Click, bt1.Click, bt2.Click, bt3.Click, bt4.Click, bt5.Click, bt6.Click, bt7.Click, bt8.Click, bt9.Click, btDec.Click
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VS 2008 Send Keys To Application What's Not In Focus
Jan 21, 2010I want to know how to send keys to some application, for example, minimized notepad.I have searched in google, youtube and this forum too.Ppl saying that with Sendkeys.send you can only send keys to application what is in focus of screen. So, can anybody post code here for sending keys to application?
View 19 RepliesDetect Three Keys Ctrl+Shit+Alt In Vb
Aug 3, 2011I am trying to detect combination of Ctrl+Shift+Alt and show them in a textbox ....Here is my code
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these expressions detects the keys? I was able to detect two keys any of the above mention like Ctrl+shift or Ctrl+Alt and vice versa with the same expressions, but why can't these expressions or piece of code can't detect three keys/combination of three?
Key Combination - Detect What Keys Are Pressed
Nov 14, 2009how one would be able to detect what keys are pressed. The problem is i want this done while my application is running in the background. There are alot of examples of doing it when yu are is what you are busy with. My scenario. I have an app process running in the background hidden. The when i press ctrl and t as an example i would like my form displayed.
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Intercept And Modify WinXP On-screen Keyboard Key Focus Event?
May 24, 2012I've adapted the code from this link to use the WinXP on-screen keyboard (osk) for a touch-screen application written in VB.NET v3.5. The osk fills the bottom half of screen etc. and behaves fine except for one little quirk. If the user clicks or taps anywhere on the 'background' area behind/between the virtual keys (within the main osk window), the color of the area changes to that of the keys when any further key subsequently gets focus. The outline of all keys is then lost because they are visually merged into the osk window background. The osk must then be terminated and re-launched to remove the confusing appearance.
This behaviour only occurs when the osk window is set to the child style (i.e. when the menu is hidden), using the SetWindowLong P/Invoke function - e.g.
SetWindowLong(OskProcess.MainWindowHandle, GWL_STYLE, WS_CHILD)
It's as if the entire area behind the keys is being treated as another key when tapped/clicked, whereupon its color is 'restored' after losing focus.Is there any way to intercept and somehow override the focus event of this osk background area?
Touchscreen Keyboard, SendKeys, Returning Focus To Original Control?
Oct 22, 2010This isn't really a VB specific question. It's .Net in general... if you have ideas in another .Net language, let me know... I know most of the .Net languages (I don't know that foxtrot or what not weird ones). Furthermore this isn't a 'I don't know the method on some class I should be using' kind of question, it's a design/problem solving kind of question.I'd like to know how you'd approach the problem with in the boundaries set.
View 3 RepliesWay To Detect Insertion / Removal Of Other USB Peripherals Such As Mouse And Keyboard?
Jan 9, 2012Why is it that this VB.Net code only works for detecting flash disks? [code] What would be the possible way to detect the insertion and removal of other USB Peripherals such as mouse and keyboard?
View 1 RepliesVB 2008 - Make Button.click Event Perform Both Enter And Period(del) Keys On Numerical Keyboard
Nov 3, 2009How Do I Make Button.click Event Perform both the enter and period(del) keys on the numeric keypad? [Code] Case Keys.Enter and Case Keys.Separator do not work. Nor does anything like Keys.OEMPeriod for the period(del) key. I've also tried calling the enter key in a KeyPress event etc. But to no avail. Any ideas? I'm trying to mimic Windows calc.exe for a school project and thought I'd try throwing in a few extras such as numeric keypad functionality.
View 1 RepliesDetect Pressed Keys On Form Load?
Jan 16, 2009I have been searching the forums but I keep finding ways to cause events to occur when a key is pressed. I'm trying to get a true/false if the "ctrl" + "L" keys are pressed when the form loads so it know whether to show itself or close
View 15 RepliesThe Usercontrol Can't Detect The Directions (arrows) Keys?
Mar 21, 2012by defauld the usercontrol can't detect the directions(arrows) keys and other special keys(using the keydown event). but using an function i can resolve the problem:
Protected Overrides Function IsInputKey(ByVal keyData As System.Windows.Forms.Keys) As Boolean
'Need to trap the following input combinations to prevent the(UserControl)
'from losing focus:
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Detect Up,down Arrow Keys While In Edit Mode Of Datagridview?
Oct 26, 2011I want to detect up,down arrow keys while in edit mode of datagrid view i use the code below but it is not working?
Public Overridable Function EditingControlWantsInputKey(ByVal keyData As System.Windows.Forms.Keys, ByVal dataGridViewWantsInputKey As Boolean) As Boolean
Select Case keyData And Keys.KeyCode
[code]....
Both case arrow keys are not detected. please tell how to detect
Can An App Detect Cursor Giving Focus To Another App's Text Field
Jun 25, 2011I am working on a carputer app, and it will be relatively basic with common tools. I am going to make an onscreen keyboard that fits the style of my app, but I want to make it a seperate application from the main app. All I want it to do is is have my keyboard become visible whenever I enter a text field of any application, whether it be programmed by me or a third-party app. Think about this in the way of a smart phone... Whenever you enter a textfield the system keyboard is displayed.
View 2 RepliesDetect Button Click Before Lost Focus Event?
Jan 30, 2010My application has a form which contains several Textboxes where user is required to fill up data. Once data is filled up user can click on "Save" button to save the data. I have added lost focus events to all textboxes so as to validate user input. When I click on cancel button, i want to detect cancel button click, but textbox lost focus is fired first so I get error message for textbox before my code moves to cancel button click handler. Is there any way to detect button click before lost focus event?
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