From: "Jethrow .." <jethrow@...>
Date: 2010-10-24T03:53:47+09:00
Subject: Re: global hotkeys in windows.

Eric Christopherson wrote in post #956560:
> You'd need to use something like AutoHotkey for that. I've never used
> it with Ruby, but it could be done.

AutoHotkey would be more my area of knowledge. You might be interested
that AHK now has a DLL with COM support. This would make embedding AHK
in Ruby quite simple:

    require "WIN32OLE"

    code =  "#NoTrayIcon\n" +
            "^m:: MsgBox, Hotkey created with AHK in Ruby"

    ahk = WIN32OLE.new("AutoHotkey.Script")
    ahk.AhkTextDll(code)

    puts "Press CTRL+M to display a Message Box with embedded AHK\n\n" +
         "Hit Enter to close the console & destroy the Hotkey ..."
    gets

If you want to know more, the AHK topic is here:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic43049.html

The actual DLL is part of the PACKAGE referenced here:
http://www.autohotkey.net/~HotKeyIt/AutoHotkey/

NOTE - you'd have to register the DLL using regsvr32.exe

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