Global shortcut + other program

Hello.
I'm building an app that will help me in playing games(not a cheat).
So first of all, is there a way how to make when my app is minimized to the system try(building for windows mainly)while play game in the same time(lets say counter strike) and i press some button/combinations of buttons my app to catch the signal. So, i am inside the game, playing it but my application waits for the sygnal.

Second i need to build in my application is when it catches that signal to send some signal like i did it with my keyboard.

The example application that i've seen is a program than makes short words larger. For example when someone write bbl the aplication returned "be back later" in the game.

I know its something specific, but i didn't know how to search for it, so if you give me some example it would be good.

Thank you deemeetar.

See QxtGlobalShortcut

Can anyone show me some example 'cos im newbie, don't realy get it how to use it.

What have you tried so far? Did you manage to download, build and install Qxt?

Here are snippets from one of the Qxt test apps:

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int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    QxtApplication app(argc, argv);
    // ...
}

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Code:

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QxtGlobalShortcut* shortcut = new QxtGlobalShortcut(this);
connect(shortcut, SIGNAL(activated()), this, SLOT(toggleVisibility()));
if (!shortcut->setShortcut(QKeySequence("Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S")))
    // ...

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PS. QxtApplication is no more needed in the development version (upcoming 0.6 version).

I can't install qxt. Here is what i do.:
Download and extract
Run vs2008 cmd
go to the extracted folder
run configure -msvc
run nmake and it gives me:

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C:\Users\Dimitar\Documents\Downloads\libqxt-0.5.0\libqxt-0.5.0>nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 9.00.21022.08
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

cd tools\doqsy\ && mingw32-make -f Makefile
mingw32-make -f Makefile.Debug
Makefile.Debug:60: *** missing separator. Stop.
mingw32-make[1]: Entering directory `C:/Users/Dimitar/Documents/Downloads/libqxt
-0.5.0/libqxt-0.5.0/tools/doqsy'
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `C:/Users/Dimitar/Documents/Downloads/libqxt-
0.5.0/libqxt-0.5.0/tools/doqsy'
mingw32-make: *** [debug] Error 2
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cd' : return code '0x2'
Stop.

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First it saied qmake is not in the path so i added:

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C:\Qt\4.5.2\qmake;

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to the path, than it tried to compile but the error happens.

Sollution please.

It almost looks like you have run configure multiple times. One time it detected mingw32-make in your environment, and generated makefiles for that. Another time you ran configure -msvc, which generated visual studio project files (not makefiles!). Then you try to compile with nmake, which uses makefiles generated for mingw32-make.

Ok, i extracted it aggain.
Than using command prompt(the system default one) i went to the extracted location:

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C:\libqxt\libqxt-0.5.0

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Then i wrote

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configure

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and then i wrote

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mingw32-make

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but error aggain.
Here is the whole console text:

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C:\libqxt\libqxt-0.5.0>configure
   Testing for qmake...
   Testing for mingw32-make...
       Using mingw32-make.
   Testing for optional external libraries.
   If a test fails, some features will not be available.
   Testing for OpenSSL...
       OpenSSL disabled.
   Testing for Berkeley DB...
       Berkeley DB disabled.
   Configuration successful.
   Generating makefiles...
Project MESSAGE: building core module
Project MESSAGE: building gui module
Project MESSAGE: building network module
Project MESSAGE: building sql module
Project MESSAGE: building web module
Project MESSAGE: building crypto module
Reading C:/libqxt/libqxt-0.5.0/tools/doqsy/doqsy.pro
Reading C:/libqxt/libqxt-0.5.0/src/core/core.pro
Reading C:/libqxt/libqxt-0.5.0/src/gui/gui.pro
Reading C:/libqxt/libqxt-0.5.0/src/designer/designer.pro
Reading C:/libqxt/libqxt-0.5.0/src/network/network.pro
Reading C:/libqxt/libqxt-0.5.0/src/sql/sql.pro
Reading C:/libqxt/libqxt-0.5.0/src/web/web.pro
Reading C:/libqxt/libqxt-0.5.0/src/crypto/crypto.pro
   Makefiles generated. Run mingw32-make now.
 
C:\libqxt\libqxt-0.5.0>mingw32-make
cd tools\doqsy\ && mingw32-make -f Makefile
mingw32-make[1]: Entering directory `C:/libqxt/libqxt-0.5.0/tools/doqsy'
mingw32-make -f Makefile.Debug
Makefile.Debug:60: *** missing separator.  Stop.
mingw32-make[2]: Entering directory `C:/libqxt/libqxt-0.5.0/tools/doqsy'
mingw32-make[2]: Leaving directory `C:/libqxt/libqxt-0.5.0/tools/doqsy'
mingw32-make[1]: *** [debug] Error 2
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `C:/libqxt/libqxt-0.5.0/tools/doqsy'
mingw32-make: *** [sub-tools-doqsy-make_default] Error 2

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Is the qmake you have in PATH for Qt/MinGW or Qt/MSVC?

C:\Qt\4.5.2\qmake

Yes, but is that a MSVC or MinGW installation? You can't mix the two.

When i was installing qt(regular one) i used msvc and Jom for faster compiling.

Hmm, perhaps removing C:\MinGW\bin from PATH and re-running configure helps? Alternatively you could set QMAKESPEC environment variable to "win32-msvc2008", "win32-msvc2005"... depending on the version you use. This way the configure script ends up using nmake as it should.

no luck aggain.
First i removed mingw from the path, like you said.
Then i runned configure -msvc from the vs2008 cmd, than i tried to make namake:

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C:\libqxt\libqxt-0.5.0>configure -msvc
   Testing for qmake...
   Testing for mingw32-make...
   Testing for nmake...
       Using nmake.
   Testing for optional external libraries.
   If a test fails, some features will not be available.
   Testing for OpenSSL...
       OpenSSL disabled.
   Testing for Berkeley DB...
       Berkeley DB disabled.
   Configuration successful.
   Generating makefiles...
Project MESSAGE: building core module
Project MESSAGE: building gui module
Project MESSAGE: building network module
Project MESSAGE: building sql module
Project MESSAGE: building web module
Project MESSAGE: building crypto module
Reading C:/libqxt/libqxt-0.5.0/tools/doqsy/doqsy.pro
Reading C:/libqxt/libqxt-0.5.0/src/core/core.pro
Reading C:/libqxt/libqxt-0.5.0/src/gui/gui.pro
Reading C:/libqxt/libqxt-0.5.0/src/designer/designer.pro
Reading C:/libqxt/libqxt-0.5.0/src/network/network.pro
Reading C:/libqxt/libqxt-0.5.0/src/sql/sql.pro
Reading C:/libqxt/libqxt-0.5.0/src/web/web.pro
Reading C:/libqxt/libqxt-0.5.0/src/crypto/crypto.pro
Project MESSAGE: building core module
Project MESSAGE: building gui module
Project MESSAGE: building network module
Project MESSAGE: building sql module
Project MESSAGE: building web module
Project MESSAGE: building crypto module
Project MESSAGE: building core module
Project MESSAGE: building gui module
Project MESSAGE: building network module
Project MESSAGE: building sql module
Project MESSAGE: building web module
Project MESSAGE: building crypto module
   Makefiles generated. Run nmake now.
 
C:\libqxt\libqxt-0.5.0>nmake
 
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 9.00.21022.08
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
 
NMAKE : fatal error U1064: MAKEFILE not found and no target specified
Stop.

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Then i added new enviorment, qmakespec just like you said and set it to win32-msvc2008, than ran nmake but the same error occures.

Progress. :) If you pass -msvc, it will create visual studio project files instead of makefiles. Don't pass -msvc if you want to compile from command line with nmake.

installed.
Okay, ill do some work for my app and then will write if i have the sollution. Thank you.