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General Software Discussion / Any new "List Hotkey" apps?
« on: December 26, 2023, 11:57 AM »
I still have, and occasionally use, the excellent Ethervane ActiveHotkeys
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=18189.0
by Tranglos. It looks like Tranglos hasn't been on the DC forums for 4 years, so I didn't reply to the thread.
Over the years I've seen a couple of similar apps. Of course they all suffer from Windows OS limitation of not being able to tell you which app the hotkey is associated with. Has anyone tried to make a "logger" that would always run in the background, and watch for hotkey presses, then attempt to determine which app is being affected by them? The app could then save the "assumed associations" to an .ini file and use them to populate a List Hotkeys app like ActiveHotkeys...
Of course antiviruses would probably flag this as a virus(?) I dunno. Seems like it might be a worthy project.
Thoughts?
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=18189.0
by Tranglos. It looks like Tranglos hasn't been on the DC forums for 4 years, so I didn't reply to the thread.
Over the years I've seen a couple of similar apps. Of course they all suffer from Windows OS limitation of not being able to tell you which app the hotkey is associated with. Has anyone tried to make a "logger" that would always run in the background, and watch for hotkey presses, then attempt to determine which app is being affected by them? The app could then save the "assumed associations" to an .ini file and use them to populate a List Hotkeys app like ActiveHotkeys...
Of course antiviruses would probably flag this as a virus(?) I dunno. Seems like it might be a worthy project.
Thoughts?