sendinput Questions

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I'm writing a program that uses Caps Lock as a toggle switch. It would be nice to set the LED of the key to show that my program is on or off, like the Caps Lock key does naturally. I know that I c...
Flagellant asked 11/2, 2010 at 22:44

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Quite funny. I just asked few minutes ago here SendInput() for keyboard - only lowercase, how to send letters upper case. The solution was to send shift before letter. But after turning shift on I ...
Crowder asked 11/7, 2012 at 18:3

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Below is an extract of some code I am using to simulate key presses via the SendInput API. This works correctly if I set my application to compile for an x86 CPU, but doesn't work for x64 CPU compi...
Malvern asked 26/7, 2011 at 13:22

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I am using this board as a keyboard for demo purposes. Anyways to make the long story short everything works fine except for very few cases. I send keystrokes with the SendInput function located in...
Hildebrandt asked 6/10, 2012 at 15:37

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Given the following code void foo() { INPUT input{}; input.type = INPUT_MOUSE; input.mi.dwFlags = MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN; SendInput(1, &input, sizeof(input)); input.mi.dwFlags = MOUSEEVENTF...
Innis asked 14/10, 2017 at 13:3

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I created a device similar to a wiimote and i want to use it as a mouse in windows (8.1). The device connects over tcp to a c++ win32 program on my windows computer and sends the position where the...
Monserratemonsieur asked 7/3, 2014 at 20:19

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So I have an application that works with a game. At one stage in the program, it clicks on a text field, enters some text then clicks some other stuff. Now the issue is this, sometimes the first c...
Vassili asked 24/7, 2015 at 9:30

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I am using SendInput() to send relative positions of the mouse. First ill tel you what am doing. i use my finger to move the mouse. So first i track my finger in a 640x480 image and get the absolu...
Consonance asked 26/6, 2013 at 8:57

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When I attempt to use SendInput to send single key presses, and combined keypresses, I can't get my program to hold the keyboard button until commanded to be released. With the code below I am able...
Harmonicon asked 21/4, 2014 at 18:58

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I've often struggled with simulating keyboard press events for various bots, or other GUI automating programs. I've managed to simulate keydown events using: INPUT[] kInput = new INPUT[1]; kInput...
Mondrian asked 22/7, 2013 at 6:13

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I'm writing an onscreen keyboard similar to the one in Windows 8. I have no problem sending most of the characters I need using Win32's SendInput. The problem is when it comes to the new Windows 8...
Jiggerypokery asked 10/3, 2014 at 2:46

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After a really deep drill down the web, this is my code which unfortunately doesnt send the keys as upper case :/ MapVirtualKey Implementation: const uint MAPVK_VK_TO_VSC = 0x00; const uint MAP...
Polyurethane asked 24/8, 2010 at 7:7

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I wanted to write a c++ code to emulate pressing a keyboard key "A": // Set up a generic keyboard event. ip.type = INPUT_KEYBOARD; ip.ki.wScan = 0; // hardware scan code for key ip.ki.time = 0; ip...
Jugum asked 5/9, 2013 at 22:37

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I want to simulate keyboard click for a external program.I've tried SendMessage, PostMessage, SendKeys but they do not send the key to one specific program. So i wanted to try SendInput and i have ...
Gonagle asked 7/7, 2011 at 13:34

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I am try to simulate mouse event on Win7, and my application using an open source project "Windows Input Simulator" on website http://inputsimulator.codeplex.com/ which internally use codes below t...
Duckweed asked 15/7, 2013 at 0:34

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I am trying to understand this bug and I am looking for a workaroud. Using this script: #NoEnv #SingleInstance force SendMode Input ;Alt+t to send keystrokes !t::Send, /[] It send the correct k...
Undo asked 8/4, 2013 at 15:11

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I'm trying to simulate keyboard commands for a custom game controller application. Because I'll need to simulate commands in a DirectInput environment most of the usual methods don't work. I know t...
Bulge asked 5/9, 2010 at 3:22

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I'm trying to send a WM_KEYDOWN/WM_KEYUP pair to an application which normally does NOT respond to the use of the KEYBDINPUT struct. I will need to send the escape key, as well as alphanumeric char...
Beverie asked 27/1, 2013 at 11:23

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I'm trying to simulate the keypress events for Win+X on Windows 8 which should pop up a small menu, but I have been unable to get this to work by using SendInput. For any other combination of keys ...
Meris asked 20/12, 2012 at 12:23

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I'm working on an Windows Form Application in C#, Framework 4 (32 bit). I have a list that holds coords of the mouse, and I can capture them. So far so good. But at some point, I want to go to th...
Skillet asked 22/11, 2012 at 22:17

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I have following code: INPUT Input = { 0 }; Input.type = INPUT_KEYBOARD; Input.mi.dwFlags = KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY; Input.ki.wVk = 'A'; // tried 0x41, ( UCHAR )VkKeyScan( 'A' ) SendInput( 1, &I...
Matherne asked 11/7, 2012 at 17:26

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I have this bit of code which uses SendInput to send a key press but it doesn't work for when I want to long hold a key (eg long hold 'a' would return 'aaaaaaaaa' in notepad). Now I have looked a...
Wessel asked 5/5, 2012 at 21:16

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I've got a C# problem, I am able to simulate a click to the current window, but I would like to do it if the window is minimized or hidden. Any ideas?
Interurban asked 23/4, 2012 at 11:39

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I was trying to accomplish this but did not get good results. I used GetForegroundWindow(), AttachThreadInput(uint,uint,bool) and GetFocus() functions to send the strings to another window. It work...
Sensationalism asked 16/1, 2012 at 18:44

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I was using the Mouse_Event Function in Delphi 2009, but the Delphi documentation says this function has been superceded and to use SendInput instead. The Delphi SendInput documentation defines th...
Dagostino asked 3/7, 2011 at 6:52

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