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# Suspending/Resuming Hotkeys

Suspending and resuming hotkeys at runtime

**Suspending** hotkeys simply refers to *disabling* or *deactivating* the hotkeys while **resuming** refers to *enabling* or *reactivating* the hotkeys for continued use.

These two methods are very applicable in scenarios where a user would prefer to change a specific hotkey while its currently active.

*A classic example.*

We'll let us imagine we have two hotkeys `Control`+`Shift`+`E` and `Alt`+`X`, but the user prefers to change `Control`+`Shift`+`E` to `Alt`+`X` and `Alt`+`X` to something else. In this case, we cannot simply change one hotkey to another if the hotkeys are currently active. *So what do we do?* We first of all need to **suspend** the currently active hotkeys to prevent them from being detected or listened to, change the respective hotkeys, then **resume** listening to the hotkeys having made the necessary changes.

Here's an example:

```
Hotkey hotkey1 = new Hotkey(Keys.Control | Keys.Shift, Keys.E);
Hotkey hotkey2 = new Hotkey(Keys.Alt, Keys.X);

// Suspend all registered hotkeys.
hkl.Suspend();

// Update hotkeys with newer keys.
hkl.Update(ref hotkey1, new Hotkey(Keys.Alt, Keys.X));
hkl.Update(ref hotkey2, new Hotkey(Keys.Shift, Keys.PrintScreen));

// Resume listening to the hotkeys.
hkl.Resume();
```

Hope that's much clearer now\...

Now, let's find out more on how to work with this feature using one very important class that comes with Hotkey Listener - the `HotkeySelector` class.