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I did a brief search and couldn't find anything on this. What I'm wanting to do is emulate a keyboard button press. Like, say if the user does something stupid I can make my program hit ctrl+alt+down, or something like that.
I don't know if it's possible, but if it is, I'd like to mess with some friends ;)
you probably mean ctrl+alt+del
Today's windows.h or conio.h or PDCurses day. Let's celebrate.
No, on some versions of XP(haven't figured out which ones will, and which wont), ctrl+alt+down(of the four arrow buttons) makes your screen flip. I could also use windowsKey the U then UQuote:
Originally Posted by Mario F.
is this somesort of indication that windows.h or conio.h will solve my problem?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mario F.
Yes. Been the topic for maybe 4 out of 5 threads for the past hour
Think you might be able to point me in the direction of a list of functions from windows.h/conio.h ? I've been searching, but the only thing I've found was the clear screen function in conio.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mario F.
;)Quote:
Boy... am I annoying, or what!
A good place to start for win32 specifics is: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...y_category.asp
In this case, I believe the SendInput function might work.
You can't inject CTRL+ALT+DEL, because it is checked in a very low-level hook.Quote:
Originally Posted by System_159
Don't use conio. It's not the standard.Quote:
Think you might be able to point me in the direction of a list of functions from windows.h/conio.h ? I've been searching, but the only thing I've found was the clear screen function in conio.
But basically you can emulate key presses like this (Windows):
And like this:Code:INPUT ms;
ms.type=INPUT_KEYBOARD;
ms.ki.wVk=0x46;
ms.ki.dwFlags=0;
//'f' key down
SendInput(1,&ms,sizeof(INPUT));
ms.ki.dwFlags=KEYEVENTF_KEYUP;
//'f' key up
SendInput(1,&ms,sizeof(INPUT));
Code://'f' key down
keybd_event(0x46,0x45,KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY|0,0);
//'f' key up
keybd_event(0x46,0x45,KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY|KEYEVENTF_KEYUP,0);