Hello, I've been working a little over the last few years with VB but do not
know that much about it. I was wondering how to write a program in VB that
would capture keyboard input, put it in a text file and pass the keystroke
on to the program running. Is there a way to have a VB program in the
background doing this. Thank you for the help.

Yes, it's possible - but you need to write a 'hook' dll which gets placed in
the system call chain to catch the keystrokes as they get passed down the
chain. This hook then sends messages to your VB app containing the keystroke
character. The only problem is that I don't think you can write the hook in
VB - I used C++. This may not be true of VB5 (we're VB4). I'm not sure why
you can't do it - it just doesn't work in VB!

If you want examples try searching for 'hook dll' in Deja - you may find
someone else has posted one - I did.

Jeremy Taylor

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