How to read a string from another app

[MarcoBoschi]

Hello everyone,
I have installed a program here that allows me to make phone calls.
There is one thing about this program that amazes me, and I would like to be able to do the same thing in one of my own programs.
For example, if I set F8 as the hotkey to dial a selected number,
then I go to any other program and select a phone number and press F8, the call starts.
I was wondering how something like this could work.
And above all, if there is a code in this group from which I could then develop something.
Currently, with a read poll using a timer of 1 seconds in the Clipboard, if I see that there is a phone number in the clipboard,
I start the call.
But it would be better with the F8 key.

Thank you.



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[Natter]

Did I understand correctly that the F8 hotkey becomes global and is triggered regardless of which program is currently active?

[MarcoBoschi]

Yes,
notepad, outlook, excel david infocenter and also cmd prompt

[Antonio Linares]

Dear Marco,

Please review FWH\source\winapi\help.c and you will see how we trap F1

I guess we can use it for other keys

[Antonio Linares]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windo ... sterhotkey

[MarcoBoschi]

Many thanks Antonio,
I will take a look next days.
The important feature (wich I fine very interestinf) is that the function can intercept from any other apps runing on the same pc a string.
in this case a phone number, but something else could be interesting, for instance a reference to a My Document that a customer sends to me, and I can open this document directly with my app.