I have tried looking into this for a while now and have not been able to come up with an answer that has worked. I am trying to register my WPF C# application to listen for Ctrl+C from anywhere while the application is running. The code below is part of my application and does trigger when the user presses Ctrl+C, however, the contents of the Clipboard are stale (the contents are from a previous copy before the application was running). The AnimateWindow function is being called so I know my hotkey registration is working.
So, my issue is that it appears registering for the hotkey below is overriding the copy functionality. I would like to keep this functionality intact as it is part of how my application works. I need to take what was copied and use that data for a database query and to fill a TextBox.
This is just a snippet of the entire project, please let me know if additional example code is needed to help answer. Thank you!
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
private static extern bool RegisterHotKey(IntPtr hWnd, int id, uint fsModifiers, uint vk);
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
private static extern bool UnregisterHotKey(IntPtr hWnd, int id);
// CTRL + C Hotkey
private const int COPY_ID = 9001;
private const uint MOD_CONTROL = 0x0002; // Modifier: Control
private const uint VK_C = 0x43; // 'C' key
/* Registering the hotkeys to be monitored */
protected override void OnSourceInitialized(EventArgs e)
{
base.OnSourceInitialized(e);
_windowHandle = new WindowInteropHelper(this).Handle;
_source = HwndSource.FromHwnd(_windowHandle);
_source.AddHook(HwndHook);
RegisterHotKey(_windowHandle, COPY_ID, MOD_CONTROL, VK_C); // 'C' key
}
/* The hook for pressing a hotkey */
private IntPtr HwndHook(IntPtr hwnd, int msg, IntPtr wParam, IntPtr lParam, ref bool handled)
{
const int WM_HOTKEY = 0x0312;
switch (msg)
{
case WM_HOTKEY:
switch (wParam.ToInt32())
{
case COPY_ID:
AnimateWindow();
break;
}
}
}