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Global keyboard hook


I need to capture global keyboard messages, so I use SetWindowsHookEx() with WH_KEYBOARD_LL. But it only works when application is in focus and does not trigger Callback globally. Almost the same code works great with mouse_LL(with another structure& etc.) Please help!

public const int WH_KEYBOARD_LL = 13;
public const int VK_INSERT = 0x2D;
public delegate int HookProc(int nCode, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam);
HookProc KeyboardHookProcedure;

[DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto,
   CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
  public static extern int SetWindowsHookEx(int idHook, HookProc lpfn,
  IntPtr hInstance, int threadId);

[DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto,
   CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
  public static extern bool UnhookWindowsHookEx(int idHook);

[DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto,
   CallingConvention = CallingConvention.StdCall)]
  public static extern int CallNextHookEx(int idHook, int nCode,
  IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam);

[DllImport("kernel32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, SetLastError = true)]
  private static extern IntPtr GetModuleHandle(string lpModuleName);

[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Sequential)]
  private struct KBDLLHOOKSTRUCT
  {
     public uint vkCode;
     public uint scanCode;
     public uint flags;
     public uint time;
     public IntPtr dxExtraInfo;
  }

private void SetHookKeyboard()
  {
     if (kHook == 0)
     {
        KeyboardHookLL();

        //If the SetWindowsHookEx function fails.
        if (kHook == 0)
        {
           MessageBox.Show("SetWindowsHookEx Failed");
           return;
        }
        button1.Text = "UnHook Windows Hook";
     }
     else
     {
        bool ret = UnhookWindowsHookEx(kHook);
        //If the UnhookWindowsHookEx function fails.
        if (ret == false)
        {
           MessageBox.Show("UnhookWindowsHookEx Failed");
           return;
        }
        kHook = 0;
        this.Text = "Keyboard Hook";
     }
  }

private void KeyboardHookLL()
  {
     KeyboardHookProcedure = new HookProc(MainForm.KeyboardHookProc);
     kHook = SetWindowsHookEx(WH_KEYBOARD_LL, KeyboardHookProcedure,   GetModuleHandle("user32"), 0);
  }

public static int KeyboardHookProc(int nCode, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam)
  {
     KBDLLHOOKSTRUCT MyKeyboardHookStruct = (KBDLLHOOKSTRUCT)Marshal.PtrToStructure(lParam, typeof(KBDLLHOOKSTRUCT));
     if (nCode < 0)
     {
        return CallNextHookEx(hHook, nCode, wParam, lParam);
     }
     else
     {
        Form tempForm = Form.ActiveForm;
        tempForm.Text = MyKeyboardHookStruct.vkCode.ToString();
        if (MyKeyboardHookStruct.vkCode == VK_INSERT)
        {
           MainForm.botAlive = false;
           MessageBox.Show(MainForm.botAlive.ToString());
        }
        return CallNextHookEx(hHook, nCode, wParam, lParam);
     }
  }

Solution

  • The problem was in "debug" feature.

    Form tempForm = Form.ActiveForm;