Hotkey hack anyone? Thread last updated on 2003-11-09 20:18:43

Posted by member 80720 on 2003-11-09 02:13:42

Anyone ever heard/saw/hacked a hotkey.dll/jkeys/any other module or a hack that can assign different actions to a key pressed *and* released?

Posted by member 1 on 2003-11-09 09:58:31 link

sounds like something jugg would have put into jkey...he likes that kinda stuff.

Posted by member 80720 on 2003-11-09 11:12:31 link

not to my knowledge but I'll double recheck, thanks

Posted by member 182 on 2003-11-09 19:01:38 link

i'm not sure that's really possible.
when you press a key, windows (and the keyboard controller) will wait for a predefined amount of time before 'repeating' that key, which in effect presses the key very rapidly.

Posted by member 99 on 2003-11-09 20:18:43 link

IIRC, Windows sends multiple down events for repeated keys, but only one up event.

But it may not be possible as a simple mod to jkey, since jkey uses Windows' hotkey service, and I would be surprised if Microsoft offered something like that.

So you'd probably have to use a system-wide hook, which is kinda ugly to code, takes more system resources, and may not work when some applications are in the foreground. (dunno if any hotkey module already does this)