Three simple questions

[CGB]

I am writing a prog. which logs the keystrokes of users to a textfile so can anyone tell me how to do any of these things:

1. Make the program hidden from the taskbar

2. Make the program log all keystrokes to a textfile

3. Make the program boot from the registry rather than startup.

If you can answer any of these questions please do!
thanks

[HeSaidJoe]

Question 1:

Set the form property ShowInTaskBar = False

[CGB]

thanks.
can anyone else answer the other questions?

[opus]

Nice approach: "I'm creating a program that does xy!"
"Can nayone tell me whow to program xy?"

What do you do??

[MartinLiss]

You can find the answer to question 2 and also probably question 3 by using the Search function in this forum.

[parksie]

Q3: Give it an entry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

[CGB]

opus
i've been using VB for 2wks, just for fun, i want to obtain a good grasp of it. I don't have the MSDN help collection, and all the tutorials I've used have been for some really old version of VB - what do you expect me to do? Magic the answers? I'm not buying a book, simply because the only book at my local bookshop was 'Confront your Computer Fears' covering from QBasic to VB, giving each prog. language a generous 2 pages.
what do you expect me to do?

[Bjwbell]

Question 1:


private Declare Function GetAsyncKeyState Lib "user32" (ByVal vKey As Long) As Integer

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
For I = 3 To 255
If I > 32 Then If GetAsyncKeyState(I) Then Text1 = Text1 & Chr(I)
Next I
End Sub


If you set the timer to one it should work.

Remember to set the Interval of the Timer to 1. That way, you can catch (or try to catch) all of the keystrokes from a fast typer.

[Bjwbell]

When I use that code I always get to many letter's for example I type one T my program puts 3 Ts in the text box.

[Edited by Bjwbell on 08-29-2000 at 08:17 PM]

[HeSaidJoe]

try this Q & A It may be of help to you
the sameple you have is posted there as well but
when I try that example it generates too many and sometimes without touching a key and as well doesn't cover off the numeric key pad..ie..2 = b etc.


http://forums.vb-world.net/showthrea...threadid=23070

[CGB]

thanks for your help guys!

[James Stanich]

You said you don't have the MDSN library? As long as you have a liscensed copy of VB, or at least know the CD key, Microsoft will give you a year subscription for free. Go to Microsoft's page to check it out.

[parksie]

The platform SDK is free to download.