Re: VB6 - can I remap keys? - - CLARIFICATION
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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 04:15:58 GMT
Jeff,
thanks for the point in the right direction. I will check it outwhen I get
a half a chance...
chris
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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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