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rooski · Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 10:27 pm Post subject: Sending keys

ive been searching for a way to send keys to a program, but whatever i try it wont work , all the methods will send the keys to notepad just fine but not the program im trying to get them to.
the program is a snes emulator , so i know its not protected in anyway.

i am doing this in c++.

any help would be great.

Zurkei · Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 10:44 pm Post subject:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.sendkeys.aspx
<3 MSDN <3

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 10:55 pm Post subject:

rooski · Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 11:01 pm Post subject:

yeah ,im looking for c++ not .net

Stylo · Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:36 am Post subject:

PostMessage / SendMessage
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms644944%28VS.85%29.aspx

Zurkei · Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:55 am Post subject:

My bad, wasn't thinking.
I searched google and I found this thread http://www.rohitab.com/discuss/index.php?showtopic=23656
Post 3 is what I found, ignore the second post.
It is using the keybd_event API

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:39 am Post subject:

Just use SendInput, easy

rooski · Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 10:22 pm Post subject:

i have tried keybd_event and it doesnt send to snes9x, and i tried sendinput , and it was sending the keys to notepad but not snes9x .

EDIT________________________________
since i couldnt get anything to work properly i searched a little deeper and found that vista blocks sendinput(), and that it doesnt generate any errors either(which is why i couldnt figure out what was going wrong) , and so far i havent found a fix.

so if anyone has successfully used sendinput() on vista , please post how here.

rooski · Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 8:47 pm Post subject:

(i know double post , but its better than starting a new thread)

any ways , using this code to send keys

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 9:00 pm Post subject:

you can do everything in 1 SendInput call fyi

rooski · Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:22 pm Post subject:

yeah , i know that , but im pressing the keys based on a generated string from 0-9 , and its easier to just press the keys 1 at a time.

turns out its a directinput issue , and i have no idea where to go from here.

EDIT______________

maybe not , even sending keys using direct input scancodes doesnt work.

mario just wont fucking move. Crying or Very sad

any ideas?

iPromise · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 4:22 pm Post subject:

PostMessage, SendMessage

I suggest PostMessage cuz its faster

rooski · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 4:46 pm Post subject:

using post/send message i cant even get keys to send to notepad.

using spy++ i looked at what the keyboard was sending and what my program was sending (image below) and the scancodes are different.
also repeat for wm_char is 0f ?

im guessing that it matters?

GiaBaoCT · How do I cheat? Reputation: 0 Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Posts: 1

How to send a key to a deactive window? some time we cant use SendMessage func (Online Games).

rooski · Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:39 pm Post subject:

@GiaBaoCT

SendInput() should work for you .

also bump.