Short Cut to my application running in the System tray

Short Cut to my application running in the System tray

• slimjen1

  Hi

  The article was really great, helpful and it worked perfectly.

  Thanks.

  
  
  

• Magnus Sthlm

  Have you tried code from my previous post about pasting clipboard to the notepad

  
  
  

• velkan

  Is there any chance that we can print some data onto an application.

  Consider i want to paste the clipboard content to the notepad when or where the hotkey is pressed.

  I guess we use Process.

  But not sure how to write onto a running process.

  I have the code for finding the processes name running on a local machine.

  Array arr = new Array[50];

  arr = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcesses();

  int len = arr.Length;

  label1.Text = arr.Length.ToString();

  for (int i = 0; i < len; i++)

  {

  String temp = arr.GetValue(i).ToString().Substring(28);

  temp = temp.Substring(0, temp.Length - 1);

  listBox1.Items.Add(temp);

  temp = null;

  }

  
  
  

• AAG

  Hi,

   

  Thanks for the code. Its working fine.

   And sorry for the delayed reply.......

   

  KingCobra

  
  
  

• MrJP

  Hi,

  Here is the code.

  This is a simple application which takes text from clipboard and writes it to the notepad.
  Process application does,

  1. Get text from clipboard
  2. Start notepad process
  3. Get the window handle of notepad
  4. Get the handle of editable area from notepad
  5. Write the text to the notepad which we copied from clipboard

  BEFORE YOU START THE FOLLOWING APPLICATION, COPY SOME TEXT FROM ANYWHERE SO CLIPBOARD WILL HAVE SOME DATA THAT OUR APPLICATION WILL WRITE INTO NOTEPAD
  
  You can seperate out the code, use it as per your need.

  private const int WM_SETTEXT = 0x000C;
  [DllImport("user32.dll")]
  static extern IntPtr FindWindowEx(IntPtr hwndParent, IntPtr hwndChildAfter,string lpszClass, string lpszWindow);
  [DllImport("user32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
  static extern IntPtr SendMessage(IntPtr hWnd, uint Msg, int wParam, string lParam);

  private void CopyClipboardTextToNotepad()
  {
  //Get text from the clipboard
  IDataObject iData = Clipboard.GetDataObject();
  string str = string.Empty;
  if (iData.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Text))
  {
  str = (String)iData.GetData(DataFormats.Text);
  }
  else
  {
  str = "Could not retrieve data from the clipboard.";
  }
  
  //Starts the notepad process
  Process objProcess = new Process();
  objProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "notepad";
  objProcess.Start();
  objProcess.WaitForInputIdle(); //This is required else the MainWindowHandle will be ZERO and the rest of the process will not work
  
  //Get the editable notepad area where we will write the text
  IntPtr notepadHandle = FindWindowEx(objProcess.MainWindowHandle, IntPtr.Zero, "Edit", "");
  
  //Write the text that we got from clipboard into the notepad.
  SendMessage(notepadHandle, WM_SETTEXT, 0, str);
  }
  

  HTH,

  
  
  

• IS dude

  Hi,

  This is your desired solution..
  http://www.dotnet2themax.com/ShowContent.aspx ID=103cca7a-0323-47eb-b210-c2bb7075ba78

  Follow the instructions given carefully in this article, it will solve your purpose.

  Just one thing you need to take care is,
  in "WndProc" method mentioned in this article, write

  this.YourDesiredMethodOnGlobalHotkey();
  instead of
  this.Activate();
  
  I have tested this and works perfectly.

  Take care that you dont use already registered hotkey (i.e. Windowskey + E etc used by system itself as global hotkey) else you will get exception with error code 1409 mentioning that hotkey is already in use/registered.

  HTH,

  
  
  
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