Something like task manager.

[romcab]

Hi guys,
I would like to ask your idea about my current problem. I would like to create an application which run on the background. Then when I press a certain key, the GUI of the program will display on the screen. A good example of this is the Task Manager where it running on the background and the GUI will display when Ctrl+Alt+Del then choose Task manager. My initial idea is to hide the window then display it when the key is pressed. But I'm thinking how the OS will know that the key is for my program and it need to display my window.Hope you can give me an idea about this one.

Thanks.

[pootle]

you can use the hotkeys api to install a global key that windows will associate with your application. This is a win32 api that you can pinvoke. Search google for registerhotkey.

Hth