Typing the colon or semicolon in the program 1

[ty1122]

hi,

I was trying to type in some keycodes with "keybd_event" API. It works for most keys on the keyboard but i can't find any keycodeconstants for ":" or ";" the ascii values are 59 and 58. But when i use keybd_event 58,1,0,0 nothing happens but other values are fine. I wonder if there is any other way to do the same thing as this API.

Thank you,
Ty1122

 

[strongm]

The keycodes used by keybd_event are nothing to do with the ASCII values of the keys; it uses virtual keycodes (the 26 letters of the English alphabet just happen to have virtual keycodes that match their ASCII values; not quite coincidence, but not to be extrapolated to other keyboard characters)

The virtual keycode for both ; and : is (typically)

VK_OEM_1 = &HBA

You can convert a known ASCII value to its correct virtual keycode on a particular PC by using the VkKeyScan API call

 

[ty1122]

Thank you for solving my program.