Keyboard hook still calls next hook; how to make it stop

[jaberwacky]

I am making a copy/paste manager to hopefully be used by some people at my workplace.  I use a keyboard hook to both detect instances of ctrl+c which is successful.  I also use it to detect number key presses.  When a number is pressed the highlighted text is then replaced by that number.  I want to not pass on the number to the next hook.  How can I do this?  Sorry, it's been a looooong time since I did any kind of coding.  Here is a pseudocode example.

Func keyboard_hook( ... )
    Switch $ctrl_c
        Case True
            dothings()
    EndSwitch
    
    Switch $key1, $key2, $key3, etc
        Case True
            dostuff()
            
            return 1 <--- still calls the next hook anyway!
    EndSwitch
    
    Return CallnextHook(...)
EndFunc

 

[jaberwacky]

I figured it out.

 

Func keyboard_hook( ... )
    Switch $ctrl_c
        Case True
            dothings()
            
            Return CallnextHook(...)
    EndSwitch
    
    Switch $key1, $key2, $key3, etc
        Case True
            dostuff()
    EndSwitch
    
    return 1 
EndFunc

 

Edited May 26, 2018 by jaberwacky

[jaberwacky]

Actually, no, I did not.  Now it won't copy selected text.

Edited May 26, 2018 by jaberwacky

[Bilgus]

you have two keys there on ctrl you need to set a flag and pass through on 'C' you need to check for previous flag do your thing and (probably) send 'C' up & send ctrl UP

Edited May 26, 2018 by Bilgus

[Bilgus]

See SendKeyLL here: 

you can use that to send your key up events

[jaberwacky]

Sorry.  I meant that I don't want the numbers to be sent to the window which has the highlighted text.

[seandisanti]

you could just set hotkeys for while the window in question is active, rather than manually casing out keyboard hooks. Look at hotkeyset and GUISetAccelerators as alternatives