System Tray C# App Recieve Keystroke

[ericlangland]

Hi,
I have a small managed code application (windows forms) that executes
on startup and immidiatly minimizes to the system tray. It launches
and shows the form when I double click it's small icon in the system
tray. So far so good.

I'd like for the app to maximize outside of the system tray when the
Windows + ? combination keys are selected. It seems that I can catch
keystrokes when the form is showing but when minimized(Hide()) it in
the system tray it can't recieve these events.

Any ideas on how to allow my app to recieve this key press event when
minimized?

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,

Eric

 

[Steve]

Hi,
I have a small managed code application (windows forms) that executes
on startup and immidiatly minimizes to the system tray. It launches
and shows the form when I double click it's small icon in the system
tray. So far so good.

I'd like for the app to maximize outside of the system tray when the
Windows + ? combination keys are selected. It seems that I can catch
keystrokes when the form is showing but when minimized(Hide()) it in
the system tray it can't recieve these events.

Any ideas on how to allow my app to recieve this key press event when
minimized?

I do something similar with one of my applications. Take a look at
this example of a system-wide hotkey at CodeProject:
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/systemhotkey.asp?df=100&forumid=12637&exp=0&select=663478

Steve

 

[ericlangland]

I do something similar with one of my applications. Take a look at
this example of a system-wide hotkey at CodeProject:http://www.codeproject.com/cs/miscctrl/systemhotkey.asp?df=100&forumi...

Steve

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Many thanks.

Cheers

/Eric