hotkey

Programatically get/set Mac OSX default system keyboard shortcut

I'm trying to find a way to programatically get/set the default OSX system keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys) found in the System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Keyboard Shortcuts tab. I need to be able to do this in the background, so GUI scripting is not a solution. I'm unable to find a plist or anything where this info might be stored...

Find out what process registered a global hotkey? (Windows API)

As far as I've been able to find out, Windows doesn't offer an API function to tell what application has registered a global hotkey (via RegisterHotkey). I can only find out that a hotkey is registered if RegisterHotkey returns false, but not who "owns" the hotkey. In the absence of a direct API, could there be a roundabout way? Windows...

Winforms MenuStrip Underlined Hotkey Letter

Typically the hotkey letters on a MenuStrip are underlined. (&File, &Open, etc) On a project I'm working on the underline shows up in the designer, but not at run time. I can't find the property that controls this. Anyone out there know? ...

How to detect when a hotkey (shortcut key) is pressed

How do I detect when a shortcut key such as Ctrl+O is pressed in a WPF (independently of any particular control)? I tried capturing KeyDown but the KeyEventArgs doesn't tell me whether or not Control or Alt is down. ...

Strange behavior with the hotkeys in VC++

I have a dialog written in VC++ as shown below: Label1 Control1 Button1 If Control1 is disabled, using Label1's hotkey results in Button1's Click event. How could I avoid that? As Control1 is disabled shouldn't the hotkey for Label1 too? ...

Vim: Insert Comments automatically

From here: Vim Comment HOWTO I've been able to type the :set comments=sl:/*,mb:*,elx:*/ command. Because my sas code requires this style comments: /* * This is the comment */ The problem is once I type this set command I don't know how to actually get those comments to add to the code... the instructions say to type "...

Copying selected text to a Swing Java app?

My goal is assign a global hotkey (JIntellitype, JXGrabKey) that would pass an arbitrary selected text to a java app. The initial plan is to utilize the java.awt.Robot to emulate Ctrl-C keypress and then get the value from clipboard. Probably there's a more elegant solution? EXAMPLE: Open Notepad, type in some text, select that text. ...

C# Winform Detect Shift Key on Application Startup

hi, is there a way to get a standard winform app to detect if the shift key is being held down on application startup - without using windows hooks? I ideally would like the workflow to change from normal if the shift key is held down when the exe is run. ...

Is there a hot key to run the contents of the Firebug Console?

If you're using Firebug (Firefox) and you type in javascript in the Console command line and press enter it executes. However, for good reason, when you expand the command line into a multi-line text area to the right then pressing enter does not execute the code. Instead you have to click Run at the lower left of this window. Is there ...

vim keystroke for \ type hotkeys?

What do I type in i, n, and v mode to do say the following hotkey? \sd \sf Also I am using this plugin in cygwin? This is the plugin and the hotkeys Warning PDF that I am trying to use. ...

JQuery- hotkeys and windows prompt issue

By referring to http://jshotkeys.googlepages.com/test-static-01.html I try to implement this powerful tool and facing some issue. everytime when I click Ctrl S, it will popup a window prompt asking me whether I want to save my testing.html I want to ignore windows prompt. What I want is simple: 1. when people click save button/ use s...

Problem registering Win + L hotkey in c#

I am using the below code to disable the hotkeys like Alt + f4, ctrl + c which are working perfectly. But I could not register win + L using the below code. namespace KioskMode { public partial class Test : Form { #region Dynamic Link Library Imports [DllImport("user32.dll")] private static extern int Fi...

How can I make a "greenscreen" web app?

In informal conversations with our customer service department, they have expressed dissatisfaction with our web-based CSA (customer service application). In a callcenter, calls per hour are critical, and lots of time is wasted mousing around, clicking buttons, selecting values in dropdown lists, etc. What the dirrector of customer servi...

Making "global" hotkeys in WPF

I'm programming an application consisting of three usercontrols in an main window. In one of the usercontrols, there's a slider that needs to be controllable by keyboard input. The left arrow should decrease value, right button increase and so on. I have this work, but only when the slider has focus. If some other control has focus, I c...

Prevent Visual Studio's "Home" page when Pressing the Web Home key

I search the web a lot when writing code. When working in Visual Studio 2008, every time I hit the keyboard's "Web Home" key (you know the one on every multi media keyboard with the house on it) it opens a browser in VisualStudio - usually to something on MSDN. Not that I don't like MSDN, but I'd like to open a real browser on my second...

Prevent hotkey from being lost after a UAC prompt in Windows

BACKGROUND I wrote an app in C# that registers windows hotkeys (it takes a screenshot when I press PRINTSCREEN) My code to register the hotkey, capture screen , etc all works. No issues there. THE PROBLEM IF my app is running (and successfully has registered the hotkey) and then I do something that causes a UAC prompt - usually thi...

T9n and hotkeys

In my website every label visible to the user is translated. Translation is done by non-programmers (luckily). In my websites (but this applies to applications too) I would like to have use hot keys for as much of the items as possible. Letting the hotkey choice be handled by the translator will require the translator to have a lit...

can parent window be notified when the hotkey control content changed? (win32)

Hi, I create a window for use setting, it contains a hotkey control and an apply button. In normal way, the button is gray, but I want it be usable when the user set an new hotkey in the hotkey control. I read the relation content in MSDN, but it seems hotkey control doesn't notify its parent window if the hotkey changed. I don't want...

Hotkey commands for Silverlight in MVVM?

I'm trying to fire commands based on keystrokes in Silverlight. As I understand you cannot use AccessKey or AcceleratorKey in Silverlight. Also it looks like the might be helpful attached property InputBindings does not work either. I started looking in other places. It looked like Prism was the way to get commands working in Silverligh...

Capturing Alt+PrintScreen hot key and clipboard contents

I setup catching hotkey on alt+printscreen. It catches perfectly but there is nothing in the buffer - no image. How can I get the image from Clipboard.GetImage() after catching hotkey? Here is the the code. using System; using System.Runtime.InteropServices; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Da...