Giri, There's only 2 ways I can think to do this. Either use a global keyboard hook from within your program, or use the RegisterHotKeys api. Either way you run the risk of your shortcut clashing with the same one in another program but I can't think of a way around that. Ian
----- Original Message ----- From: GiRi To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 4:27 AM Subject: [vbhelp] Triggering / with shortcut key in any application VB application will open Hi all, could you please give me a soultion for the following scenario: 1) VB application will be running in background 2) i should be able to open that running application from any other application(ms-word,notepad,explorer etc...) using a shortcut key. 3) this is just like Babylon dictionary. it would be great if u could give the valid solution! Thanks & Regards, giri '// ======================================================= Rules : http://ReliableAnswers.com/List/Rules.asp Home : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vbHelp/ ======================================================= Post : [email protected] Join : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave : [EMAIL PROTECTED] '// ======================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/ b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] '// ======================================================= Rules : http://ReliableAnswers.com/List/Rules.asp Home : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vbHelp/ ======================================================= Post : [email protected] Join : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave : [EMAIL PROTECTED] '// ======================================================= Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vbhelp/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
