[Gambas-user] Please assist me !!!

[Jussi Lahtinen]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2775461/linux-keyboard-event-capturing-dev-inputx

You need to open stream for that dev as root.

See serial port example:
http://gambasdoc.org/help/lang/open?v3

But probably you don't want to run your program as root.
I recommend to do as Rob already advised; use ready made features of your
window manager.


Jussi





On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Gavin Reeve Frost <grfrost at ...626...>wrote:

> Hi there please can you assist me benoit ive tried every website i can find
> and I cannot
> find a solution to this problem.
>
> The problem is I need a key press to be detected outside of a form.
>
> I have a small form that runs at the top that if pressed it closes
> Firebox which is running underneath it.
>
> The form and Firefox launches at the same time when a button is pressed.
>
> The form_ key press works the second you go in if you do not touch anything
> but as soon as you start using Firefox the key press no longer works
> because the form is no longer active.
>
> How could I capture the key press within Firefox or other windows and send
> that back to my form.
>
> I am using this code
>
> Public Sub Form_KeyPress
> If Key.Code = Key.F12 Then
> Splash_Credits_Label.Text = (Splash_Credits_Label.Text) + 5
> End If
> End
>
> Public Sub Close_Firefox_Button_Click()
> If Form_Banking.Fire Then
> Form_Banking.Fire.Kill
> End If
> End
>
> Obviously the Form_KeyPress is only working on the form, but I need to
> capture the same KeyPress on that form even if Firefox or Skype is open and
> active and in use.
> Please assist me I have tried everything this is one of the few things I
> need to work out in order to complete my project.
>
> Thank you
>
> GR Frost
>
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