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 <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > [email protected] > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
