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Hello people,
I have made a system wide hotkey to play a sound when pressed. It works fine except when I run a game in full screen mode. Like when I run championship manager in windowed mode, the hotkey works, but when I switch the game to full screen mode, the hotkey stops functioning. I have tried to set the thread priority and prioity class for the hotkey program, but it doesn't work. Can anyone suggest anything I could do.
Chen Ling
there is nothing you can do.
The game probably uses direct x. If direct x hooks the keyboard, it is in fact interrupting the keys. There are two ways a game can do this. One of them doesn't send the keypresses on to windows.
it probably still won't work. Game Directx hooks (if that is how it did it) still have priority over all other keyboard input because they bypass the operating system apis altogether.
In that case, how does programs such as Roger Wilco or BattleCom work? surely there's some way of doing it.
Take a look at your other thread.
doesn't rogerwilco require directx also? It probably hooks the keyboard the same way the game does.
You can even recieve the window and menu keys before the os gets them.
directx? great, I know absolutely nothing on programming with directx, know anywhere I can get some info, would the directx sdk help?
I've just read a whole lot on directinput from msdn site. And I think this might be the answer, thanks for your help, I really appraciated.
Chen Ling