How can a program "listen" even when it's not active?

Hi Guys !

I really need to know how a vb-program can run (or "sleep") in the background and still "listens" to a user action (like Mouseclick or Keypress).

My program reacts only when it is the active programm.

Can anybody tell me what needs to be done?

That would make me very happy !!!

Thank you
Dani

You can use GetAsynckeystate to listen to key codes and GetCursorpos to get cursor position. Search on these topics