How to trap keystrokes. Not for stealing passwords.

I am trying to develop a program, which
1) When a blind person hits a hotkey, it enables key trapping types, they then type in actual characters, not CTRL, ALT etc.
it adds them into a text box, and then reads them the words back out again.
2) When they hit a different combo of keys, it reads out each word, so basically it copies the current word being typed, then reads it out after a space is trapped.

can anyone help me??
plz???

Can you give me more information?
What kind of hot keys? All of them?
What kind of combos you want to use?

Ok, here goes:

Place a text box named "text1" on a form, set visiblity to false. Then:

Code:

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Private Sub Form_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
If KeyAscii = 32 Then
GoTo spacePress
End If
If KeyAscii >= 32 And KeyAscii <= 122 Then
a = Chr$(KeyAscii)
Text1.Text = Text1.Text + a
GoTo endit
End If

spacePress:
Text1.Visible = True

endit:
End Sub

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Hope this helps!!

-KnightM

[Edited by KnightM on 04-28-2000 at 09:32 PM]

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Can you give me more information?
What kind of hot keys? All of them?
What kind of combos you want to use?

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CTRL+SHIFT+A to Start Listening
CTRL+SHIFT+S to Stop

also for reading out current word
CTRL+SHIFT+W
to turn off
CTRL+SHIFT+O

can you help

unfortunately, KnightM, this would not work if my application was not "on top" or activated....

thanks any way