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Simple question I think, after I have registered a few system-wide hotkeys with RegisterHotKey() do I need to eventually call UnregisterHotKey() to clean them up, or can I simply exit my application without worrying about it?
MSDN doesn’t seem to say, that or I misunderstand it, anyways: I realize I should just go ahead and call UnregisterHotKey to be safe, but if anyone knows otherwise it’d be useful just to know, for knowings sake.
Thanks!
If the MSDN doesn’t explicitly tell you to unregister, then it’s probably safe to just quit. The MSDN is usually pretty good at pointing things like this out. However, I also use RegisterHotKey and I always make sure to call UnRegisterHotKey when my application quits as you never know if not doing do will cause you problems in a future version of Windows. Better to be safe than sorry IMHO.