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

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

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.