DOStradamus
MVM
join:2003-11-04
Santa Rosa, CA
| reply to inGearX
Re: Hot key volume control in Vista?
(this ain't OT) I have a keyboard with volume and mute keys (plus a few others), and am happy to see that they also control the volume out my SPDIF(digital), on the 6.0A kernel in Longhorn, unlike the 5.x in XP and 2k3.
"HOW THESE WORK (And how I reprogrammed the other, stupid labeled keys to do useful things)":
There is a spot in the registry where actions for Application Keys are stored, things like Volume Up, Vol Down, Mute, Browser Back, and "Calc" (which runs MY favorite "calculator" -- GWBASIC!).
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AppKey
is where it's at.
This place for "always listened for" key values is just the "tip" of much larger native support for what you're trying to do -- the most probable reason that your app can't do what it does, is that Windows already has its "hands" on the keystrokes used for this kind of thing, and has them funnelled off before your old app can get to them.
One of my "tasks in rotation", is figuring the Application Key interface out -- everything to do what you used to use a 3rd-party app for is there -- I've seen all the parts, and now I'm playing "Concentration" -- asking myself "where did I see thae match for that", but without Bob Barker's patter to distract me.
You can handle a few extra mouse clicks over the next dozen days, eh? If so, Christmas will be quite "merry" for ye.
-NK |
