how to override start button?
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Hi all, I am writing an application that checks the correct functionality of a keyboard. I am doing so by overriding the PreTranslateMessage(MSG *pMsg). In my PreTranslateMessage i am catching all the WM_KEYDOWN and WM_SYSKEYDOWN messages and read from the wparam which key was pressed . I have 2 problems: 1. When pressing the start button (VK_LWIN), the start button is actually pressed and the start menu is opened. The menu is being opened even if i put a break point in the beginning of my PreTranslateMessage. I just want to know when the start button was pressed and i dont want it to open the start menu. :~ 2. It seems that the print screen button doesn't generate any of the 2 messages that i process in the PreTranslateMessage. what is the window message that is generated when i press the print screen key? :confused: Thanks Simon
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Hi all, I am writing an application that checks the correct functionality of a keyboard. I am doing so by overriding the PreTranslateMessage(MSG *pMsg). In my PreTranslateMessage i am catching all the WM_KEYDOWN and WM_SYSKEYDOWN messages and read from the wparam which key was pressed . I have 2 problems: 1. When pressing the start button (VK_LWIN), the start button is actually pressed and the start menu is opened. The menu is being opened even if i put a break point in the beginning of my PreTranslateMessage. I just want to know when the start button was pressed and i dont want it to open the start menu. :~ 2. It seems that the print screen button doesn't generate any of the 2 messages that i process in the PreTranslateMessage. what is the window message that is generated when i press the print screen key? :confused: Thanks Simon
Have you tried using
SetWindowsHookEx()with theWH_KEYBOARDorWH_KEYBOARD_LLhook procedure? Look at the docs here. Regards, --Perspx"The Blue Screen of Death, also known as The Blue Screen of Doom, the "Blue Screen of Fun", "Phatul Exception: The WRECKening" and "Windows Vista", is a multi award-winning game first developed in 1995 by Microsoft" - Uncyclopedia Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
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Hi all, I am writing an application that checks the correct functionality of a keyboard. I am doing so by overriding the PreTranslateMessage(MSG *pMsg). In my PreTranslateMessage i am catching all the WM_KEYDOWN and WM_SYSKEYDOWN messages and read from the wparam which key was pressed . I have 2 problems: 1. When pressing the start button (VK_LWIN), the start button is actually pressed and the start menu is opened. The menu is being opened even if i put a break point in the beginning of my PreTranslateMessage. I just want to know when the start button was pressed and i dont want it to open the start menu. :~ 2. It seems that the print screen button doesn't generate any of the 2 messages that i process in the PreTranslateMessage. what is the window message that is generated when i press the print screen key? :confused: Thanks Simon
Those two buttons, and a couple of others are special. They're not forwarded to your application at all, instead Windows processes these key combinations internally. It's like Ctrl+Alt+Del
There is sufficient light for those who desire to see, and there is sufficient darkness for those of a contrary disposition. Blaise Pascal
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Those two buttons, and a couple of others are special. They're not forwarded to your application at all, instead Windows processes these key combinations internally. It's like Ctrl+Alt+Del
There is sufficient light for those who desire to see, and there is sufficient darkness for those of a contrary disposition. Blaise Pascal