keyboard-hook

I've created a GLOBAL keyboard hook DLL, using source code found on the internet. For the best part it works brilliant, except when it comes to browsers. It picks up every key in the browser except, it seems, when the browser gets focus, it looses the first key that is pressed. Tested this in IE and Firefox and it seems to be the same for both. For instance, if I open IE and start typing www. , I only get back ww. If the browser window stays in focus no further keys are lost. As soon as the browser looses focus and regains focus, the first key is again missing. Could it be because of using

We have some global keyboard hooks installed via SetWindowsHookEx with WH_KEYBOARD_LL that appear to randomly get unhooked by Windows. We verified that they hook was no longer attached because calling UnhookWindowsHookEx on the handle returns false . (Also verified that it returns true when it was working properly) There doesn't seem to be a consistent repro, I've heard that they can get unhooked due to timeouts or exceptions getting thrown, but I've tried both just letting it sit on a breakpoint in the handling method for over a minute, as well as just throwing a random exception (C#) and it

I want to be able to detect when the user presses F10 or Ctrl+F10 outside of my program, and upon receiving the key press, it will send text to whatever they currently have selected (e.g. a text box). How can this be accomplished in the simplest way? CodesInChaos Use RegisterHotkey and not a keyboard hook to get a global hotkey. See one of my older answers on almost the same question: listen for a key when the application is not focused The first problem here is that the F10 key is already a reserved key for Windows applications. When the user presses it, the active application selects the

i dont know a better title for the question , but i`ll illustrate my problem. I am working on application that acts like a mp3 player , it uses the Multimedia keys to play/pause , stop the song , i actually made it work but the FormApplication must be in the top [Focused] protected override void WndProc(ref Message msg) { if (msg.Msg == 0x319) // WM_APPCOMMAND message { // extract cmd from LPARAM (as GET_APPCOMMAND_LPARAM macro does) int cmd = (int)((uint)msg.LParam >> 16 & ~0xf000); switch (cmd) { case 13: // APPCOMMAND_MEDIA_STOP constant MessageBox.Show("Stop"); break; case 14: //

I have an app which uses a keyboard hook procedure in a library. The wParam in the hook for one message is 255 which we think is "(reserved / OEMClear)". I'd like to work out the source of this message as it causes my application to crash in the library, and given it shouldn't be happening it would be good to identify it. The message comes in repeatedly on only one PC we have - other computers don't see the message at all. So, is there a way to trace the source of a message sent to a window please, or all those on the system? There is no built-in way to find out who sent the window message,