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    Menu Item Appear on Key Press

    Hi,

    I am trying to get a menu item only appear on a certain key press and then disappear after a certain time.
    this is working for the first time only once hidden it will not appear.

    I am using RegisterHotKey on the keydown event please see the code below if anyone has a better way of getting this achieved please let me know.

    Code:
        Private Sub Form1_KeyDown(sender As Object, e As KeyEventArgs) Handles Me.KeyDown
            If RegisterHotKey(Me.Handle, 100, MOD_Alt, Keys.X) Then 'alt+x
                MenuStrip1.Visible = True
                Timer1.Enabled = True
                Timer1.Start()
            End If
        End Sub
    Code:
       Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As System.Windows.Forms.Message)
            If m.Msg = WM_HOTKEY Then
                Dim id As IntPtr = m.WParam
                Select Case (id.ToString)
                    Case "100"
                        MessageBox.Show("Alt+X Key Press Detected Loading Admin Center", "Admin Center", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information)
                End Select
            End If
            MyBase.WndProc(m)
        End Sub
    Code:
        Private Sub Timer1_Tick(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
            MenuStrip1.Visible = False
            Timer1.Stop()
        End Sub
    Code:
       Public Const MOD_Alt As Integer = &H1
        Public Const WM_HOTKEY As Integer = &H312
        <DllImport("User32.dll")>
        Public Shared Function RegisterHotKey(ByVal hwnd As IntPtr, ByVal id As Integer, ByVal fsModifiers As Integer, ByVal vk As Integer) As Integer
        End Function
        <DllImport("User32.dll")>
        Public Shared Function UnregisterHotKey(ByVal hwnd As IntPtr, ByVal id As Integer) As Integer
        End Function
    Cheers James

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    Re: Menu Item Appear on Key Press

    Uuuuhh.... yeah... that's not how RegisterHotKey works... You should be registering your hot keys on FormLoad ... then in the WndProc you handle the hot key that was pressed. You should NOT keep registering the hot key on every singe keypress... What's happening is the first time, it registers, returns a code that allows it to enter your If statement, but on subsequent registers, it's already registered, so it returns a different value (presumably 0) so it skips the If statement... that's why it looks like it doesn't work. But the problem is that it's in the wrong spot to begin with.

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    Re: Menu Item Appear on Key Press

    Code:
    Dim id As IntPtr = m.WParam
                Select Case (id.ToString)
                    Case "100"
    ???

    Code:
     Select Case (m.WParam.ToInt32)
                    Case 100

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    Re: Menu Item Appear on Key Press

    BTW… You don’t even need the parentheses on the Select Case…

    Code:
    Select Case m.WParam.ToInt32

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