Can I do...?
As you can see, I'm new...
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Anyways, I've always wanted to learn a programming language just for the hell of it, but have always been discouraged with thoughts like, "What am I planning on programming anyway?" So I started thinking about it and I can up with a few possibilities. One of the things I wanted to do was make a program that ran by pressing a few hotkeys (and ran in the background; sorry if this is cluttered, I just kinda throwing ideas in there as I go along) and what it would do is open MSN and sign me in. I'm about 99% sure I can do the first one, but is the second possible? If not in this language, how about in any others? If you can do it in the majority, which language do you think would be the easiest (but not too basic, cause I might as well learn more of the basics of the language as I try this little thing)?
I'll end this with apologies, as you so often have to do on internet forums. Sorry if this is in the wrong place and sorry if my lack of computer knowledge offends you. Sorry if this thread is a waste of your precious bandwidth.
Thank you to all that respond.
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Anyways, I've always wanted to learn a programming language just for the hell of it, but have always been discouraged with thoughts like, "What am I planning on programming anyway?" So I started thinking about it and I can up with a few possibilities. One of the things I wanted to do was make a program that ran by pressing a few hotkeys (and ran in the background; sorry if this is cluttered, I just kinda throwing ideas in there as I go along) and what it would do is open MSN and sign me in. I'm about 99% sure I can do the first one, but is the second possible? If not in this language, how about in any others? If you can do it in the majority, which language do you think would be the easiest (but not too basic, cause I might as well learn more of the basics of the language as I try this little thing)?
I'll end this with apologies, as you so often have to do on internet forums. Sorry if this is in the wrong place and sorry if my lack of computer knowledge offends you. Sorry if this thread is a waste of your precious bandwidth.
Thank you to all that respond.
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Both programs are just one. You need to capture global keyboard input from a windowless program that executes at logon and keeps running indefinitely. Capturing input is very easy: look up GetAsyncKeyState on the MSDN Library.
To execute a program, search CreateProcess.
Wouldn't it be simpler to just set MSN to launch at startup?
To execute a program, search CreateProcess.
Wouldn't it be simpler to just set MSN to launch at startup?
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