sending keyboard events

[lordhuh]

is there an api that will alow me to emulate keyboard presses at the windows level. i am going to be reading from a serial device and when i get a certain condition i want to be able to have my program type something to what ever window has focus (outside my program too). let me know if any of you know a way or where to find more info about api's.

-karl Karl Pietri

http://www.crantorland.com

 

[Scoty]

This is my favorite api site

http://www.vbapi.com/ref/funca.html

hth
Scoty : "Learn from others' mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself."
-- Hyman George Rickover (1900-86),

 

[LuckyLuke]

This is exactly what you are looking for:

Public Declare Sub keybd_event Lib "user32" Alias "keybd_event" (ByVal bVk As Byte, ByVal bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long)

bVk
Specifies a virtual-key code. The code must be a value in the range 1 to 254. For a complete list, see Virtual-Key Codes.

bScan
This parameter is not used.

dwFlags
Specifies various aspects of function operation. This parameter can be one or more of the following values.

KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY:
If specified, the scan code was preceded by a prefix byte having the value 0xE0 (224).
KEYEVENTF_KEYUP:
If specified, the key is being released. If not specified, the key is being depressed.

dwExtraInfo
Specifies an additional value associated with the key stroke.

 

[lordhuh]

Thanks Lucky-Luke i eventually found it.

-Karl Karl Pietri

http://www.crantorland.com