KeyPress Detect?

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BlitzProg

(Posted 2009) [#1]

Hi there

So far i have been unable to detect keypresses without having my program active.

I often like to have my keypresses displayed on my screen as i play browser games, but seeing i need to keep the browser active i just cannot detect anything.

The only way i managed to do a such think is by using a joystic to simulate keypresses to a game, and this is the only thing i sucessfully can detect that way (the joystic detection seems to work no matter if your window is active or not) like in this video that show under the screen my program:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a74aABPdb-0

I hope someone can help! (sorry for my bad english, it's very hard to express what i need correctly in such situations ^^)

Warner

(Posted 2009) [#2]

I only know how to do this under Windows:

Extern "Win32"
	Function GetAsyncKeyState:Int(key:Int)
End Extern
Graphics 800, 600

Repeat

	'scan keys
	key = -1
	For i = 0 To 255
	If GetAsyncKeyState(i) Then key = i
	Next
	
	Cls
	DrawText key, 0, 0
	Flip
	
Until KeyHit(27)
End

BlitzProg

(Posted 2009) [#3]

Awesome! thanks!