Re: System-wide hooking, VB+ASM

"J French" <erewhon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The real question is: 'can you use an AX DLL for systemwide hooks ?'

Actually, the question of the meaning of "regular DLL" and the related
discussion is also real.

> The answer is,
> if it has the basic chassis of a 'real' DLL, then you can

Unless you have, or are aware of, a real example of that then you can't say
it is possible. Do you have an example of a system-wide hook using just VB?
In other words, not using additional tools not provided with VB and/or not
documented in the MSDN.


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