Question

I’m setting up a hotkey in my code for Ctrl+Shift+d. I’ve got it working now as Ctrl+d (almost there…), but I can’t figure out how to get the second modifier (Shift) to work. Below is the way I am calling the function currently for just Ctrl+d

Win32.RegisterHotKey(hWndSource.Handle, add, Win32.MOD_CONTROL, Win32.VK_KEY_D);

I want to use Win32.MOD_CONTROL and Win32.MOD_SHIFT.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You should pass Win32.MOD_CONTROL | Win32.MOD_SHIFT as the third parameter (instead of just Win32.MOD_CONTROL). It bitwise ORs the CONTROL and SHIFT values together in the modifier flags.

This is documented in the API page for the RegisterHotKey function:

The fsModifiers parameter can be a combination of the following values.

The bitwise OR (|) combines the MOD_CONTROL and MOD_SHIFT values into a single value with both bits set.