Christof,

Thanks for your suggestion, I think that is a valid point, and also a good idea to use an application trigger the function. This would work actually very easy for my situation.

My application let's you send a message to another user. In order to send the message you could press a shortcut and a window opens where you can type the message and press send, then the window closes also right away.

The program would be minimized in the icon tray, so you could also right-click on the icon tray and open the message window from there. but this is meant as tool for our developers to quickly communicate with each other by means of sending and receiving messages, as an alternative to Twitter.

That's why I thought the shortcut could come in handy. What do you think?

Christian

>Hi Christian,
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>an alternative is to create a shortcut to a small VFP application that performs this action, or forwards the request to your main application. Then speciy a hot key in the Explorer settings.
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>However, I wonder what kind of action your application performs that makes it unfeasable for the user to switch to your application and perform the action. I just ask because I found that most applications take themselves way tooo important. Some tools like Skype install half a dozen of global short cuts for all kind of absurd actions when I as a user can't remember more than five of them for all applications, anyway. They tend to get into the way, for instance, because the combination is used in a remote control software or in a complex IDE such as Visual Studio.