Is there a way to notice the release of a hot-key button registered with RegisterHotKey
?
I get a WM_HOTKEY
message every time I press the hot-key but I need to know when the key was released
Is there a way to notice the release of a hot-key button registered with RegisterHotKey
?
I get a WM_HOTKEY
message every time I press the hot-key but I need to know when the key was released
There is no specific notification for that specific action. You will have to write a DLL that implements a global keyboard hook via SetWindowsHookEx()
, then you will receive individual keypress up/down notifications and can match them up to your WM_HOTKEY
notifications as needed.
Use RegisterHotkey
to detect the key going down, then use polling with GetAsyncKeyState
until the key is no longer down. This avoids the complexity of SetWindowsHookEx
and the polling is generally acceptable since it is only done while the hotkey is being held down.