Detet keyboard input

[stever66]

Is it possible to detect text input from the keyboard?  I don't see any revit specific commands related to getting keyboard input, so I'm hoping this is possible with general Windows C# routines.

The problem is, most general Windows examples showing key press events assume there is a form being displayed, and the code examples are tied to the form.  I don't want to add a form, I just want to detect key presses from within the revit window so I can expand on the Keyboard Shortcuts Revit includes.

Thanks,

Steve

[stever66]

Any ideas on this?

does anyone think it's possible or not possible?

it really seems like revit would have an event handler for keyboard input.

[FAIR59]

I don't think Revit has any Event for keyboard input. You could define your own Listener like this:

class Listener : System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow
{
            public Listener(IntPtr hWnd)
            {
                // assign the handle and listen to this control's WndProc
                this.AssignHandle(hWnd);
            }

            protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)
            {
                // listen to WndProc here, do things
//                StringBuilder.AppendLine(string.Format("<{0}>,  {1}", m.Msg, m.ToString()));
                base.WndProc(ref m);
            }
        }
//      Process process = Process.GetCurrentProcess();
//      Listener intercept = new Listener(process.MainWindowHandle));

[jeremytammik]

I do not believe that you need a form to detect a key press.

I searched the internet for '.net detect key press' and found:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=.net+detect+key+press

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1100285/how-to-detect-the-currently-pressed-key

Cheers,

Jeremy