Re: VB6 - can I remap keys? - - CLARIFICATION
From: Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB] (i.get_at_enough.spam)
Date: 06/10/04
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:56:07 -0400
"<"}}>< <"}}>< <"}}><" <mudrat_detector@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> However, in the past 20 years, I have redefined function keys to perform
the
> tasks I mentioned earlier in three seperate ways, none of which had
anything
> to do with a built in "macro" facility of AutoCAD. When DOS was the only
> option, ansi.sys and a batch file of ansi escape sequences did the job.
In
> the early days of Windows, recorder.exe did the job. And recently, since
> recorder.exe is no longer part of the Windows XP installation, I have been
> using a product called Macro Express [ www.macroexpress.com ].
You need to look into the concept of keyboard hooks. Your program would
monitor for function keys via the hook, determine if AutoCAD is the
foreground application, and then stuff characters into the keyboard buffer
via the keyboard_event() API function.
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