Did you check if this helps you? http://hotkey.codeplex.com/
david -----Original Message----- From: Noon Silk [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, 15 January 2011 9:15 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: System wide Hot Key... On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Conrad Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > I would look for a "after copy to clipboard hook" and handle that because > the contents from Word (or any other application) should be in the > clipboard. Yeah, I agree, when I was looking at this earlier in the day I found a code project article that did something like that; searching now I found this: <http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/net/code/libraries/Windows_Messages/Responding_to_Clipboard_Change_Notifications/article.asp> So yes, it seems reasonably possible and probably the best approach, if it meets the business requirements. > When you hook the "control-c", it'll be really hit and miss as you could get > the event before or after the app you intend getting the data from. > By creating your own "control-shift-c" hook, you'd need to know about the > application that has focus as Noon mentioned and that means extra > processing. > > Just my logical analysis - I haven't done this sort of stuff. -- Noon Silk http://dnoondt.wordpress.com/ (Noon Silk) | http://www.mirios.com.au:8081 > "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being this signature."
