1 Topic by ahulse0753

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When using the system to capture athlete hitting athletics take off board the operator uses a large key programmed to give the same key sequence as using the main keyboard. However, if the focus is not in the capture window this does not work, the audio trigger will work even if this is not the case. Would it be possible to set the key press as a Trigger and allow this to be armed in the same way as the audio tigger is. The reason for this request is that if the operator has to show an athlete a place in the replay the focus is moved to the replay screen, sometimes, the operator forgets to put the focus back into the capture screen and the jump is then missed even though they press the capture button.

There may be a way already to do this but I cannot find it

2 Reply by joan

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Yes there is a way but not directly inside the program, in order to capture key presses when it doesn't have focus it needs to be something else.

You can use AutoHotkey (AHK) to capture the key presses, then a command to find the right Kinovea window and send it a Windows Message. People have posted the code in the forum I think, sorry I can't be of much help right now I'll come back later with more info if no one else has done so. The documentation is light but might get you started: https://www.kinovea.org/help/en/misc/copydata.html