RE: creating shortcut

You must register the key combination as system global hotkeys as follows...

// This is needed to get a unique ID that is registered on your system as an
atom.

Const
	HK_CTRL_F1 = 'Ctrl+F1';

// This var must be global as you need to save the value stored in it
Var
	iHotKeyID: ATOM; 

// Get an ID for your hotkey combo
iHotKey := GlobalAddAtom(PChar(HK_CTRL_F1));

// Now register your hotkey
RegisterHotKey(Self.Handle, iHotKeyID, MOD_CONTROL, VK_F1);

That is it, your hotkey is registered, now you need a message handler to
catch the key presses and then do whatever you need to do :)

Remember when your app closes to unregister the hotkey by calling:
UnregisterHotKey(Self.Handle, iHotKeyID);
And also to call GlobalDeleteAtom(iHotKeyID); to delete the atom you created
above

Please note that the above is out of my head so may need some tweaking.
There are also no error checks so you must do that. IE: If Ctrl+F1 is
already registered by another application on the system as a hotkey then
RegisterHotKey returns false, also if there is also an atom on the system
for the 'Ctrl+F1' string then the return value is zero. You must check for
these things in your app. Read the WinAPI help on these functions to
determine how to properly use them.

HTH
Mike





-----Original Message-----
From: digitalchandra [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 23 July 2003 12:19 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Delphi] creating shortcut

Hi All.

Currently I'm creating an application that will be resident in system 
with the icon is shown in system tray. But I have a problem .
How to create a shortcut key, for example when we hit CTRL+F1 on 
keyboard, my application will be come up.

TIA.





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