keylistener to help my 2 year old learn her ABC's!

matthew knudsen

Hello all!

I want to write a windows form app that when executed listens for key strokes from the keyboard. When the 'a' key is pressed an audio recording will say the letter and then the phonics.

Question is: how do I listen for any key stroke when the app is executed? This would be a super simple form app that I would eventually add an image when the key is pressed with the letter. My daughter is always trying to type on my keyboard and getting in trouble I thought this would be a fun way for her to learn.

Does C# have a keylistener like java? if so I could use that with a simple switch and be ready to go.

Cant get the "reply" to work on this thing. weird. I agree that there are probably a lot of great programs out there. but I am just out of college and just thought I would try something new. I know its nerdy but I love learning new things! I did get the keylistener to work using a simple event handler. ended up being about 6 lines of code. Now the fun stuff of adding audio!

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Pasan Ratnayake16y ago
Yes. Your idea is possible to be implemented in C#. But just so that you know, there are plenty of learning programs for kids that does exactly the same thing for just a couple of bucks.
Unless you believe that it would be worth a shot or you are trying something different, it would fit your needs well. Just because you are a good developer, you do not have to code everything around you, you know *wink* No offense =]
Sam Hobbs16y ago
There are many ways to do this depending on where you need this to happen in terms of do you want this to happen when the cursor is anywhere in the form or anywhere regardlous of what form. Will this be a special form that you use for doing just this? There are many details such as that that we need.