DOCERR: KeyboardProc() Not Required in DLL for Task Hook

Last reviewed: July 17, 1997
Article ID: Q102943

7.00 1.00 1.50 WINDOWS kbprg kbdocerr

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft C/C++ for Windows, version 7.0
Microsoft Visual C++ for Windows, versions 1.0 and 1.5

The online help for Microsoft C/C++ version 7.0 and for Visual C++ versions 1.0 and 1.5 all say the following about KeyboardProc():

The KeyboardProc function is a library-defined callback function that the system calls whenever the application calls the GetMessage or PeekMessage function and there is a WM_KEYUP or WM_KEYDOWN keyboard message to process.

Under Windows version 3.1 [using the SetWindowsHookEx() function instead of SetWindowsHook()], it is not necessary for the KeyboardProc() function to be placed in a dynamic-linked library (DLL) if it is being used as a task-specific hook.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q83233
   TITLE     : Sample Code Uses Keyboard Hook to Access Help

Additional reference words: Visual 3.10 1.00 1.50 7.00
KBCategory: kbprg kbdocerr
KBSubcategory: VCGenIss
Keywords : kb16bitonly

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Last reviewed: July 17, 1997
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