global hotkeys in C#

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I have always been hardcoding hotkeys using GetAsyncKeystate() (hotkey is used to show/hide the Application). Now I've been wondering how the automatic keydetection in PC-games works: . How can I do it?

What do you mean by automatic key detection? They are just keys set by default by game and you can change them. — Ben sin aspa, Jan 19 '16 at 14:50
you click on the option and then it waits until you press a key, detects which key it was and changes the hotkey to the key you just set. — nice, Jan 19 '16 at 15:46
that depends on the platform you are going to implement this. what are you using? WinForms? WPF? — Waescher, Jan 19 '16 at 19:06

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I suggest you get keypressed event and set string as event args, and save that string as applictacion settings hotkeys.

answered Jan 20 '16 at 13:08

Ben sin aspa

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I thought about that but this method does not work with combinations like Ctrl+V. – nice Jan 20 '16 at 13:56
@nice what about keypressed event fires up string hotkey+=ctrl, event fired again hotkey+=v. Hotkey setting finished save hotkey in app settings. – Ben sin aspa Jan 20 '16 at 14:27
and when use each method for diffrenent hotkey – Ben sin aspa Jan 20 '16 at 14:28

global hotkeys in C#

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