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Create hotkeys for windows form

 1. Create a Hot key class to deal with the hotkey registry and unregistry

 Public Class Hotkey

 #Region  “Declarations – WinAPI, Hotkey constant and Modifier Enum”

      Public Declare Function RegisterHotKey Lib“user32” (ByVal hwnd As IntPtr, ByVal id As Integer, ByVal fsModifiers As Integer, ByVal vk As Integer) As Integer

 Public Declare Function UnregisterHotKey Lib“user32” (ByVal hwnd As IntPtr, ByVal id AsInteger) As Integer

 Public Const WM_HOTKEY As Integer = &H312

 Public Const VK_F6 As Short = &H75S 

Public Const VK_F7 As Short = &H76S

 Public Const VK_F8 As Short = &H77S

 Public Const VK_F9 As Short = &H78S

Enum KeyModifier

  None = 0

 Alt = &H1

Control = &H2

Shift = &H4

Winkey = &H8

End Enum

 ‘This enum is just to make it easier to call the registerHotKey function: The modifier integer codes are replaced by a friendly “Alt”,”Shift” etc.

 #End Region

 

#Region “Hotkey registration, unregistration and handling”

 Public Shared Sub registerHotkey(ByRef sourceForm As Form, ByVal triggerKey As String, ByVal modifier As KeyModifier)

     RegisterHotKey(sourceForm.Handle, 1, modifier, Asc(triggerKey.ToUpper))

 End Sub

Public Shared Sub registerHotkey_VK(ByRef sourceForm As Form, ByVal id As Integer, ByVal vk As Integer, ByVal modifier As KeyModifier)

     RegisterHotKey(sourceForm.Handle, id, modifier, vk)

 End Sub

Public Shared Sub unregisterHotkeys(ByRef sourceForm As Form)

   UnregisterHotKey(sourceForm.Handle, 1)

 ‘Remember to call unregisterHotkeys() when closing your application.

 End Sub

#End Region

End Class

2. Register HotKey in the form to be used

       Hotkey.registerHotkey_VK(Me, 1, Hotkey.VK_F6, Hotkey.KeyModifier.Alt + Hotkey.KeyModifier.Control)

       Hotkey.registerHotkey_VK(Me, 2, Hotkey.VK_F7, Hotkey.KeyModifier.Alt + Hotkey.KeyModifier.Control)

3. Create an overrided WndProc function to provide  the “Hotkey” function

 Protected OverridesSub WndProc(ByRef m As System.Windows.Forms.Message)

 If m.Msg = Hotkey.WM_HOTKEY Then

    If m.WParam = 1 Then

  ‘Deal with the hotkey Alt + Ctrl + F6

   End If

   If m.WParam = 2 Then

    ‘Deal with the hotkey Alt + Ctrl + F7

  End If

 End If

MyBase.WndProc(m)

End Sub

 4. Unregister hotkeys

     Hotkey.unregisterHotkeys(Me)

 

 

 

 

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