Interacting with keyboard input.

Hi!
I tried to interact with the user's keyboard input in order to eg. replace the letter 'a' with '4' and 'e' with '3'. You know what I'm up to. I want to make a leetspeak translator so you can chat without having to write something like this.

i managed to grab the keyboard input just like a keylogger and send a keystroke like backspace and then the letter. but that doesn't work.

Do you have any idea how to do this?
thanks

never mind. after days of trying i got it to work.

does anyone know how to convert a System.Windows.Forms.Keys to char?

Code:

Keys k = Keys.A;
char c = (char)k;

i know but this fails at things like "ä" or "ê"...
how do i really convert them?

alright, grabbed that code and used the scancode parameter, too:

Code:

[DllImportAttribute("user32.dll")]
		public static extern int ToAscii(int uVirtKey, int uScanCode, byte[] lpbKeyState, byte[] lpChar, int uFlags);
		[DllImportAttribute("user32.dll")]
		public static extern int GetKeyboardState(byte[] pbKeyState);

		public static char GetAsciiCharacter(int uVirtKey, int uScanCode)
		{
			byte[] lpKeyState = new byte[256];
			GetKeyboardState(lpKeyState);
			byte[] lpChar = new byte[2];
			if (ToAscii(uVirtKey, uScanCode, lpKeyState, lpChar, 0) == 1)
			{
				return (char)lpChar[0];
			}
			else
			{
				return new char();
			}
		}

oh, did i forget to mention i solved it? i did.