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First off, I know this could be used for a keylogger. I’m not going for that, I’m looking to make an application that listens for custom key combinations just to automate a few really annoying tasks.
Is there some way to capture all input from the keyboard?
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RegisterHotKey().I don’t think you want to hook all keyboard input. You simply want an app with a hidden window listening for
WM_HOTKEY. I don’t think you even need to write it yourself. There are a lots of utilities that will do it for you and let you associate system-wide hot keys with actions of your specification, e.g. AutoHotKey.