How to trap keystrokes. Not for stealing passwords.

[da_silvy]

I am trying to develop a program, which
1) When a blind person hits a hotkey, it enables key trapping types, they then type in actual characters, not CTRL, ALT etc.
it adds them into a text box, and then reads them the words back out again.
2) When they hit a different combo of keys, it reads out each word, so basically it copies the current word being typed, then reads it out after a space is trapped.

can anyone help me??
plz???

[mlana]

Can you give me more information?
What kind of hot keys? All of them?
What kind of combos you want to use?

[KnightM]

Ok, here goes:

Place a text box named "text1" on a form, set visiblity to false. Then:

Private Sub Form_KeyPress(KeyAscii As Integer)
If KeyAscii = 32 Then
GoTo spacePress
End If
If KeyAscii >= 32 And KeyAscii <= 122 Then
a = Chr$(KeyAscii)
Text1.Text = Text1.Text + a
GoTo endit
End If

spacePress:
Text1.Visible = True

endit:
End Sub

Hope this helps!!

-KnightM

[Edited by KnightM on 04-28-2000 at 09:32 PM]

[da_silvy]

Can you give me more information?
What kind of hot keys? All of them?
What kind of combos you want to use?

CTRL+SHIFT+A to Start Listening
CTRL+SHIFT+S to Stop

also for reading out current word
CTRL+SHIFT+W
to turn off
CTRL+SHIFT+O

can you help

unfortunately, KnightM, this would not work if my application was not "on top" or activated....

thanks any way