Hotkey horror

I want to be able to assign 4 different tasks to the Hotkeys F9, F10, F11, F12 on my application when it doesn't have the focus.

Would someone please show me an example of this with MsgBoxs or something......

I've been trying different methods all day and none have been successful.

thanks

Do a srearch in the forum for hotkey and I'm sure you'll find your answer.

Set the KeyPreview property = True

Private Sub Form_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
Select Case KeyCode
Case vbKeyF9
Call SomeProcedure()
Case vbKeyF10
Call SomeOtherProcedure()
Case vbKeyF11
Call SomethingElse()
Case vbKeyF12
Call StillSomethingElse()
End Select
End Sub


hope this helps..

In a Module:

Code:

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Private Type POINTAPI
        x As Long
        y As Long
End Type

Private Type MSG
    hwnd As Long
    message As Long
    wParam As Long
    lParam As Long
    time As Long
    pt As POINTAPI
End Type

Private Declare Sub CopyMemory Lib "kernel32" Alias "RtlMoveMemory" (Destination As Any, Source As Any, ByVal Length As Long)
Private Declare Function RegisterHotKey Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal id As Long, ByVal fsModifiers As Long, ByVal vk As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function UnregisterHotKey Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal id As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function SetWindowsHookEx Lib "user32" Alias "SetWindowsHookExA" (ByVal idHook As Long, ByVal lpfn As Long, ByVal hmod As Long, ByVal dwThreadId As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function UnhookWindowsHookEx Lib "user32" (ByVal hHook As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function CallNextHookEx Lib "user32" (ByVal hHook As Long, ByVal nCode As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As Any) As Long

Private Const WH_GETMESSAGE = 3
Private Const WM_HOTKEY = &H312

Public Const MOD_ALT = &H1
Public Const MOD_CONTROL = &H2
Public Const MOD_SHIFT = &H4
   
Private lHookID As Long
Private lHotKeys As Long

Private Function CallBackHook(ByVal nCode As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long
    Dim tMSG As MSG
       
    CopyMemory tMSG, ByVal lParam, Len(tMSG)
    If tMSG.message = WM_HOTKEY And wParam Then
        'Execute whatever for the HotKey here
        'Each Hotkey is identified by it's unique ID
        'The first hotkey, wParam = 1, 2nd, wParam = 2, etc..
        Form1.lPressed = tMSG.wParam
        Form1.Command1_Click
    End If
    If nCode < 0 Then CallBackHook = CallNextHookEx(lHookID, nCode, wParam, ByVal lParam)
End Function

Public Function SetHotKey(ByVal lSpecial As Long, ByVal lKey As Long) As Long
    Static lHotKeyID As Long
   
    lHotKeyID = lHotKeyID + 1
    If RegisterHotKey(0&, lHotKeyID, lSpecial, lKey) <> 0 Then
        lHotKeys = lHotKeys + 1
        SetHotKey = lHotKeyID
        If lHookID = 0 Then lHookID = SetWindowsHookEx(WH_GETMESSAGE, AddressOf CallBackHook, App.hInstance, App.ThreadID)
    End If
   
End Function

Public Sub RemoveHotKey(ByVal lHotKeyID As Long)
    If UnregisterHotKey(0&, lHotKeyID) Then
        If lHotKeys > 0 Then lHotKeys = lHotKeys - 1
    End If
    If lHotKeys = 0 And lHookID <> 0 Then
        Call UnhookWindowsHookEx(lHookID)
        lHookID = 0
    End If
End Sub

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Example usage:

Code:

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Private lHotKey(3) As Long
Public lPressed As Long

Private Sub Form_Load()
    lHotKey(0) = SetHotKey(0, vbKeyF9)
    lHotKey(1) = SetHotKey(0, vbKeyF10)
    lHotKey(2) = SetHotKey(0, vbKeyF11)
    lHotKey(3) = SetHotKey(0, vbKeyF12)
End Sub

Private Sub Form_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
    Dim lIndex As Long
    For lIndex = 0 To 3
        RemoveHotKey lHotKey(lIndex)
    Next
End Sub

Public Sub Command1_Click()
    'Make the Command Buttons Click Event Public, so it can be called outside the Forms Module.
    MsgBox "You pressed the Hotkey with the ID of: " & lPressed, vbSystemModal
End Sub

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Thanks Aaron for the code it works wonderfully its what I'm looking for except, I don't understand the use of the command button?

And with that I'm still haveing troubles assigning a task to a certain key....
Such as
Hotkey F9 would send a message box saying "1"
Hotkey F10 would send a message box saying "2"
Etc.........

If you could show me where to plug this in successfully without creating errors I would be thank ful......

'this should work:

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

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
If GetAsyncKeyState(120) Then
MsgBox "f9 was pressed ;]"
End If
End Sub

'120 is f9, 121 is f10, 122 is f11...

Using Aaron's code, in the command click event, have this:

Code:

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Public Sub Command1_Click()
    'Make the Command Buttons Click Event Public, so it can be called outside the Forms Module.
Select Case lPressed
Case 1
' do F9 stuff
Case 2
' do F10 Stuff
End Select
End Sub

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The Command1_Click is just a sub getting called, you can change that in the module code if you want.

Any sub will do