A mechanism for exploiting "HotKey" functionality under Windows, whereby pressing a key triggers comething regardless of current focus....

This link [http://groups.google.com/groups?th=6ea547eab291ea39], takes you to the google archive of a discussion about Windows Hotkeys where [David Gravereaux] admitted the existance of a package he had written to expose the Win32API that lets you bind them...

This link [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tomasoft/winutils/Hotkey.cpp?rev=1.8&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup], takes you to a colorised (but out of date) copy of the main source file, while this link [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tomasoft/winutils/Hotkey.cpp?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup], takes you to the HEAD copy of the main source file.

Finally, this link takes you to a download of WinUtils0.6 (A lot of the checkin comments talk about "towards a 0.8 release, so I don't know what happened to 0.7) [http://prdownloads.sf.net/tomasoft/winutils-0.6.zip?download].

Note that the release of HotKeys in 0.6 has an ITCL dependency whereas the latest code appears not to have.

[Dan Smart] says
This was not the most informative page in the world...
So I've updated it, but it is probably only marginally more informative now...


Previously it read (in its entirety):
'''[[1]], especially [[2]] ([[3]]).'''

[TWAPI] provides documented [http://twapi.sourceforge.net/input.html#register_hotkey] hot key support for Windows (NT 4 and later).
See example at [http://twapi.sourceforge.net/hotkey.example].