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Synthesizes keystrokes, mouse motions, and button clicks.

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Send keys through SendInput in user32.dll

I am using this board as a keyboard for demo purposes. Anyways to make the long story short everything works fine except for very few cases. I send keystrokes with the SendInput function located in user32.dll. So my program looks like: static void…
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C++ move mouse in windows using SetCursorPos

I created a device similar to a wiimote and i want to use it as a mouse in windows (8.1). The device connects over tcp to a c++ win32 program on my windows computer and sends the position where the mouse cursor should move. I am using the…
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Simulating Keyboard with SendInput API in DirectInput applications

I'm trying to simulate keyboard commands for a custom game controller application. Because I'll need to simulate commands in a DirectInput environment most of the usual methods don't work. I know that using a hook would work 100% but I'm trying to…
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Move Mouse to Position and Left Click

I'm working on an Windows Form Application in C#, Framework 4 (32 bit). I have a list that holds coords of the mouse, and I can capture them. So far so good. But at some point, I want to go to those coords and left mouse click on it. This is how it…
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Using SendInput to send unicode characters beyond U+FFFF

I'm writing an onscreen keyboard similar to the one in Windows 8. I have no problem sending most of the characters I need using Win32's SendInput. The problem is when it comes to the new Windows 8 Emoji's. They start at U+1F600 using the Segoe UI…
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Can't send a single key function to remote desktop

After a really deep drill down the web, this is my code which unfortunately doesnt send the keys as upper case :/ MapVirtualKey Implementation: const uint MAPVK_VK_TO_VSC = 0x00; const uint MAPVK_VSC_TO_VK = 0x01; const uint…
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SendInput() not equal to pressing key manually on keyboard in C++?

I wanted to write a c++ code to emulate pressing a keyboard key "A": // Set up a generic keyboard event. ip.type = INPUT_KEYBOARD; ip.ki.wScan = 0; // hardware scan code for key ip.ki.time = 0; ip.ki.dwExtraInfo = 0; // Press the "..."…
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SendInput fail because of UIPI

I am try to simulate mouse event on Win7, and my application using an open source project "Windows Input Simulator" on website http://inputsimulator.codeplex.com/ which internally use codes below to simulate mouse event: [DllImport("user32.dll",…
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Screen goes black when i use SendInput to send mouse cursor positions

I am using SendInput() to send relative positions of the mouse. First ill tel you what am doing. i use my finger to move the mouse. So first i track my finger in a 640x480 image and get the absolute position in pixels with in the image. then i send…
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SendInput and 64bits

Below is an extract of some code I am using to simulate key presses via the SendInput API. This works correctly if I set my application to compile for an x86 CPU, but doesn't work for x64 CPU compilation. I'm guessing it has something todo with the…
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SendInput() isn't "sending" the correct shifted characters?

void WriteChar(char c) { INPUT input = {0}; input.type = INPUT_KEYBOARD; input.ki.wVk= VkKeyScanEx(c, GetKeyboardLayout(0) ) ; SendInput(1,&input, sizeof(INPUT)); } VkKeyScanEx returns different key codes for '/' and '?'(same…
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SendInput() for keyboard - only lowercase

I have following code: INPUT Input = { 0 }; Input.type = INPUT_KEYBOARD; Input.mi.dwFlags = KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY; Input.ki.wVk = 'A'; // tried 0x41, ( UCHAR )VkKeyScan( 'A' ) SendInput( 1, &Input, sizeof( INPUT ) ); but it generates me…
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SendInput Not working for Games

I am using the following standard GenerateKey Code : void GenerateKey ( int vk , BOOL bExtended) { KEYBDINPUT kb={0}; INPUT Input={0}; // generate down if ( bExtended ) kb.dwFlags = KEYEVENTF_EXTENDEDKEY; kb.wVk = vk; …
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Pressing Win+X, Alt-Tab programmatically

I'm trying to simulate the keypress events for Win+X on Windows 8 which should pop up a small menu, but I have been unable to get this to work by using SendInput. For any other combination of keys (e.g. Win+R, Win+E, Win+D) it works but not for…
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How send unicode character to active application?

I need something like SendInput in Windows API. I see this method, I don't know there is anyway to convert unicode character to virtual Key code. CGEventRef CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent ( CGEventSourceRef source, CGKeyCode virtualKey, bool…
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