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hi,

i use in my HMG App when have HMG App in Back-Ggound and Notepad running in Fore-Ground those ON KEY in Back-Ground will be called e.g F5
instead of insert "Date/Time" in Notepad it will call "my F5" in HMG App ...

what i´m doing wrong

Hi Jimmy,

i have the same problem when we use 'on key Fx to ...' in a hmg or minigui application.
When our application is in background another application does not react anymore on his own Fx keys.
Tried several solutions but never found one.

Somebody a idee ????

Regards,
Hans

AUGE_OHR wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 1:49 am hi,

i use in my HMG App

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ON KEY xxx OF 

when have HMG App in Back-Ggound and Notepad running in Fore-Ground those ON KEY in Back-Ground will be called e.g F5
instead of insert "Date/Time" in Notepad it will call "my F5" in HMG App ...

what i´m doing wrong

Hi Jimmy,

You are correct
There is the confirmed hotkey handling bug in HMG (by Roberto Lopez).

Please take a look to the following discussion at
viewtopic.php?t=497

BTW The above bug was fixed in Minigui Ex a long time ago.

Hi Grigory, Jimmy,

Grigory i am sorry to say that this is not working (not stable) in minigui ex.
We are developping for the moment with minigui and i can confirm you that when our program is placed in background that another minigui program (both use onkey Fx ...) or a windows program the Fx does not function in the program that has focus.
What we have seen is that this faulty behaviour is not stable and appears in 1 or 2 cases on 10 runs of both programs.

I will try to create one of these days a demo to show the problem.

Regards
Hans

hansmarc wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 11:13 am Hi Grigory, Jimmy,

Grigory i am sorry to say that this is not working (not stable) in minigui ex.
We are developping for the moment with minigui and i can confirm you that when our program is placed in background that another minigui program (both use onkey Fx ...) or a windows program the Fx does not function in the program that has focus.
What we have seen is that this faulty behaviour is not stable and appears in 1 or 2 cases on 10 runs of both programs.

I will try to create one of these days a demo to show the problem.

Hi Hans,

Thanks for your interest.

My test example was a sample in the folder SAMPLES\BASIC\TreeMenu_2.
This sample use FKeys 1-5 and 9.

I ran two copies of the above app without any hotkey issues.
I then launched Windows Notepad and pressed the F5 key with a successful result (adding a date and time stamp).

Your feedback is welcome anyway.

It's strange, but sometimes everything works OK and sometimes IDE catches function keys very aggressive