Application issues

[ZeroEffect]

Ok so I wanted to be able to use a joystick to send keyboard shortcuts to an application. I have all that working. My problem is unless the application that is sending the keys is the active window nothing happens. my application is ment to sit in the tray and wait for input from the joystick. Can this be done? and how. The application is for a remote for an audio player.

I wasn't sure if this would be a directx issue or not that is why it is posted here.

Thanks for any ideas you may have.

ZeroEffect

 

[ZeroEffect]

Have I stumped the panel?

 

[snarfblam]

I believe that DirectX is only meant to capture the input of the active application. Perhaps you would be better off using the Windows API?