Chris, Many thanks!
Thanks, Ray Horsley LinkIt! Software -----Original Message----- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Nonsanity Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 3:12 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: Keystrokes Running in Background It does for me. You just need to find out the values of the keys you are interested it. It even works for modifier keys, as in my control-enter example. Send the keysDown to the msg box to find out what values to look for. ~ Chris Innanen ~ Nonsanity On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Ray Horsley <r...@linkit.com> wrote: > I agree. This will be for my own personal use only. But does this > actually work even when the stand alone is not the active > applications? > > Thanks, > > Ray Horsley > LinkIt! Software > > -----Original Message----- > From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com > [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Nonsanity > Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 1:50 PM > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: Re: Keystrokes Running in Background > > I needed to do the same thing for a LC tool I use. The only way I > found to work it was by polling. This means that the script may miss > the keypress if it is too short. > > -- poll for control-enter keypress > on KeyMonitor > get "," & the keysDown & "," > if ",65507," is in it and ",65293," is in it and the hilight of btn > "Active" is true then > -- do stuff here > end if > if KeyMonitor is not in the pendingmessages then send KeyMonitor to > me in > 10 ticks > end KeyMonitor > > I wouldn't want to use this for a program you plan to distribute, but > for my own purposes - where I know about the sample rate and will > remember to hold the keys down for a moment - it works fine. > > > ~ Chris Innanen > ~ Nonsanity > > > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Ray Horsley <r...@linkit.com> wrote: > > > Anybody know of a way to trap for keystrokes when a standalone is > > running as a service. I'm using Fire Daemon on Windows 7. I'm > > trying to write a simple app which launches programs on pre-defined > > keystrokes. > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Ray Horsley > > > > LinkIt! Software > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
