[RESOLVED] small problem

[coolevo89]

hi guys i searched but didnt find anything useful for my problem
is what i want is a way of when a certain button on the keyboard is pressed my vb project to be shown above everything else.
for example when i press the End key my visual basic program will be displayed above all other windows.
thanks for the help

[zeezee]

Welcome to the Forums


To achive this, you have to do two things.
1. register a Hotkey systems wide.
2. Bring the form on top

For the first one, you can use two APIs. one is GetAsyncKeyState and other is RegisterHotKey

Here are some examples for that
http://www.a1vbcode.com/snippet-3708.asp
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=446131

http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=345422
http://vbnet.mvps.org/index.html?cod...sterhotkey.htm

For your second problem look at these examples

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=352702
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/186431
http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/show/2940/2/

Here is some aditional help
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread389768.html