Capturing keys in vb.met

[aliinal]

Hi,

I want to capture a special key combination even if my application has no focus.
This is exactly for a screen capture utility. Icon sits in system tray and onclick it captures screen and saves it according to the settings given.
This works fine bu if user wants to capture screen for example with start menu open, after clicking the icon in system tray, menu looses focus and disappears.
So i need a routine to capture a key combination. Is this possible in vb.net?

Any other advice instead of my techinque (capturing key press) will be good too.

thanks

 

[Dimandja]

There are many apps out there designed to do this.

But if you want to write it yourself, here is an idea:

Allow the user to press [Print Scrn] -- which sends your screen to the clipboard. Then, launch your application. All your app has to do is get the screen from the clipboard.

Come to think of it, this is the basic idea behind many of those commercially available screen capture utilities.