I am creating a website application which requires
keyboard input, specifically without browser focus.
Without giving too much away about my great application idea (=P), I
want to respond (even to just a single) keyboard key press, with the
understanding that the browser will not have focus.
I have been doing a great deal of studying on this front, and I have
found much help with keyboard 'hooks', so that no matter which
application has focus, I can react to key inputs (the ones I have been
playing with are in vc#). And these work, for executables, but I am not
sure how to get them into the browser with my web application.
What my question is: Can I use ActiveX (or anything of that ilk -
wpf?) to get access to keyboard input regardless of the browser having
focus or not.
Thanks so very much for your time, I would love to learn if this type
of thing is even possible, before wasting my time learning how to
create and use ActiveX (just to learn that it is not).