OMG Thank you!. For your points. I was using Tk for other stuff before I started pairing down to find this specific issue. That is also why the keyboard hook was still in there, it was kind of my "yes its still running and catching input" test. ;) Prototyps and some of the other gruff was collected from other examples I'd found, all used prototypes so I made the assumption that they were needed. I'm so friggin happy you don't even know! lol. I'm off to play with this, thank you very very much. Now to figure out what you did differently that made it work! BTW I knew i would need to decode, but as far as i could tell it wasn't even getting messages when it didn't have focus so I hadn't even tried decoding them yet.


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Eric Hodges

In reply to Re^2: Continueing the Quest to get RegisterHotKey to work! by eric256
in thread Continueing the Quest to get RegisterHotKey to work! by eric256

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