simple question... how od you simulate...

How do you simulate keystrokes?

Sorta like a macro but throw c++. Basicly what I want is somethign that will key the keys I tell it to.


And if possible, how could I make a program run if I hit, for say, crtl+shift+a?

I am using dev-c++, so please no vc++.

Thank you!

You can do this with the Windows API function keybd_event.

ok thanks msdn is taking over now.

Now it is just not working, maybe I am lost now...

Here is the prototype...

Code:

---

VOID keybd_event(          BYTE bVk,
    BYTE bScan,
    DWORD dwFlags,
    PTR dwExtraInfo
);

---

Here is my code...

keybd_event(
14, //caps lock key
NULL,
KEYEVENTF_KEYUP,
NULL
);

Here is the url at the msdn site...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...eybd_event.asp

Okay...you've told the key to go up. Did you ever tell it to go down? :)

well umm, ok anyways...

how abotu the crtl+shift+a question, is that possible?

>how abotu the crtl+shift+a question, is that possible?
I believe so, but I'm not sure how to go about it. Perhaps you can create a shortcut to your program and then edit its properties to use that keyboard combination to activate the shortcut. It's not a C++ question unless you want to write a program that runs infinitely in the background and polls for ctrl+shift+a.

For the letters and numbers tho.... how do I do them.

Like for caps lock I would use this VK_CAPITAL

but for the letter "a", this is all it gives me....

(41)
A key


how do I do letters and numbers?



Edit: I feel like an idoit, I like the creat shortcut thing. It works now! But now for the letters and numbers.

VK_CAPITAL is just #define'd somewhere as an integer that represents that Caps Lock key. You can use 41 the same way.

Granted, it would be wise to define those character codes as constants somewhere in your code (for a few reasons), and then use the constants.

Note the "VK_" in the macro's name. That stands for Virtual Key which is a internal operating system representation of a set of key presses. All documentation I found this far states that VK_* for normal text chars have the ascci value of that char.