I don't think anyone can solve this

[Blaster]

Ok I have a Multimedia Hotkey Keyboard and it has buttons at the top of the keyboard(volume up, down etc,etc..) they program that came with it (mk9805.exe), just sucks I would like to make a program that looks neater and faster
I know there is some way to find out what the buttons mean so I can make a hotkey. I'm consfued

[Blaster]

the dependency's of the program are
ADVAPI32.DLL
KERNEL32.DLL
COMCTL32.DLL
COMDLG32.DLL
GDI32.DLL
SHELL32.DLL
USER32.DLL
WINMM.DLL
OLEAUT32.DLL

i used the dependency walker to find that out.
btw I'm alitte new to visual basic

[Blaster]

ok I got it to work but the key is
255 for all of the keys
this is just weird

ret = RegisterHotKey(Me.hWnd, &HBFFF&, MOD_ALT, 255)

all of the keys on the top of keyboard are 255, but how does the original program work

[parksie]

Try using Spy++ on the program, so when you press a key, you can see the keydown message come in.

[Blaster]

I don't know what this means

<00001> 00000234 P message:0x0500 [User-defined:WM_USER+256] wParam:00000000 lParam:00000002
<00002> 00000234 P message:0x03D1 [Unknown] wParam:82D2C6B8 lParam:00000001
<00003> 00000234 S WM_SYSCOLORCHANGE
<00004> 00000234 R WM_SYSCOLORCHANGE
<00005> 00000234 P message:0x0500 [User-defined:WM_USER+256] wParam:00000000 lParam:00000008
<00006> 00000234 P message:0x03D1 [Unknown] wParam:82D2C6B8 lParam:00000001
<00007> 00000234 S WM_SYSCOLORCHANGE
<00008> 00000234 R WM_SYSCOLORCHANGE

00001 - 00004 is volume up
00005 - 00008 is volume down