Trouble with simulating keystrokes

[geek@02]

Hi!
i'm trying to simulate key presses and i did this:

keybd_event('G', NULL, KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY | 0, 0 );

it wrote lowercase 'g' into notepad, not the uppercase 'G' that i've passed into the function. and when i pass the lowercase:

keybd_event('g', NULL, KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY | 0, 0 );

it writes '7', not 'g'?
So why is this happening? how can i correctly simulate key strokes?

Thanks for any help.

[Magos]

http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showthread.php?t=75791

[geek@02]

u mean, use SendInput() instead of keybd_event()? but i can use only keybd_event() right now. so keybd_event() isn't capable of doing it?

[Tonto]

Well, I don't see why you need to use keybd_event, but the first argument to it is:

BYTE bVk

Which specifies the virtual key code. Look at them here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...alKeyCodes.asp