Hotkeys without focus

[Araredon]

How can i make a program respond to hotkeys without it having focus. Im trying to make a bot to spam my friends on msn (actually this fag thats really annoying) and i want my bot to stop when i push ESC. Im aware of the keydown event but how do I do that when my program doesnt have focus?

[suicidity]

GetAsyncKeyState() is one of the cheap functions of checking a key's current state; Could be used like..

if (GetAsyncKeyState(Keys.Escape) <> 0)
    STATE = States.Stopped;

The only thing is that would you would have to put that in something like an update thread; But that would probably be one of your routes because it doesn't sound like it would affect the outcome of your project very much.

[T1B]

Google after "keyboardhook" =]

[Araredon]

Thanks Teh