I was trying to wirte a small app to test hooks based on Icz's example, here are the dll procedures
The WM_HOOK message get post just fine if my Window has focus, but they don't get posted at all if the window is in the background. Worse again, sometimes cpu usage goes up to 100% and no keys get set to other apps until I close mine, then they all arrive.
I'm just wondering have I done something silly and wrong above, or do Hooks perhaps work differently under WinXP?
I notice too, something Icz's example doesn't get sent its HOOK message if the window doesnt have focus.
proc __DllMainCRTStartup@12,hIst,reason,reserved1
enter
mov edx,[hIst]
mov eax,1
mov [gIst],edx
return
proc _KeyProc@12,nCode,wParam,lParam
enter
invoke CallNextHookEx,[gKey],[nCode],[wParam],[lParam]
invoke PostMessage,[gWnd],WM_HOOK,[wParam],[lParam]
xor eax,eax
return
proc _InstallHook@4,hWnd
enter
invoke SetWindowsHookEx,WH_KEYBOARD,_KeyProc@12,[gIst],0
mov edx,[hWnd]
mov [gKey],eax
mov [gWnd],edx
return
proc _UninstallHook@0
enter
invoke UnhookWindowsHookEx,[gKey]
returnThe WM_HOOK message get post just fine if my Window has focus, but they don't get posted at all if the window is in the background. Worse again, sometimes cpu usage goes up to 100% and no keys get set to other apps until I close mine, then they all arrive.
I'm just wondering have I done something silly and wrong above, or do Hooks perhaps work differently under WinXP?
I notice too, something Icz's example doesn't get sent its HOOK message if the window doesnt have focus.
The WM_HOOK message get post just fine if my Window has focus, but they don't get posted at all if the window is in the background.
Every Dll has its own data section.
So, your hWnd is not shareable between instances of your dll.
When you call _InstallHook from your process, hWnd is valid.
But when hooked event occurs in other process, hWnd is not initialized,
because this dll instance has its own brand new data section.
And
invoke PostMessage,,WM_HOOK,,
actually looks like this:
invoke PostMessage,0,WM_HOOK,,
You have to put hWnd in shareable section:
shared SEGMENT
hWnd dd ?
shared ENDS
And tell linker make it readable/writable/shareable:
/SECTION:shared,RWS
It should work.
That worked perfectly, thank you very much Four-F.
Ya thanks Four-F, nice work indeed
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You know that?
So when he answer you about system hook, it will work correctly.
Try to use search engine with user name: Four-F or keyword DDK, hooking system,...
You will increase your knowledge very much.
The world is so big...
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