Cannot Get SendInput To Work
May 21, 2009
I'm writting a "Console Application" using Visual Basic (VB.net) 2008 Express Edition in a Windows XP SP3 environment, and I'm trying to get SendInput to work.
I have been able to get SendKeys working, and I'll use it if I must, but there are some unpleasant control issues. Plus, it's incompatible with Vista, from everything I've heard.
So, I'm including two attachments. The first is a quick-and-dirty working example of SendMessage (actually SendMessageString) which I've used to half-way convince myself that I know how to use the "user32.dll" API's. (For simplicity, I've stripped out all of the error-testing logic.)
The second bit of code is my unsuccessful attempt to get SendInput to send some test keystrokes to Notepad. (I've heard some people say it can't be done in VB.net. Are they right?) To get a clean compile, I had to comment out 'CopyMemory' because how to get it to work. Is it essential to the code?
Tim
Public Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" _
(ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As IntPtr
Public Declare Auto Function FindWindowEx Lib "user32" _
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Jul 2, 2009
I asked a similiar question in the VB6 forums with some methods I was trying there, but this is a different method that I'm trying in .Net that I cannot get to work. First what I'm trying to do, I play a game that allows attended macroing, so I'm trying to write a program that I can record and playback macros in. I already have the recording down, and I can playback my macros using older API Keybd_Event and Mouse_event, but not in the game. The game recognize all the mouse events, but does not recognize all the keyboard events. (It is a DirectX based game by the way). For example if I record they keystrokes h e l l o and have notepad in focus and play it back it will type hello in notepad, but in the game they keys are not recognized.
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May 9, 2009
I got the code from ALLAPI but it gives me errors of declarations that have changed in this version of VB, i tried to update the code but...
Public Class Form1
Const VK_H = 72
Const VK_E = 69
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Jun 11, 2011
My curse seems to be SendInput... I have tried many sites and code variations and it never works right... it always returns an error. So can someone just whip together a quick class that has 3 public methods, one for keyboard (that takes a Keys data type) one for mouse, and one for Hardware?
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Jul 22, 2009
I'm trying to write a program to control input. Unfortunately, thing always seems to fail.
The thing always comes up with "Application Defined or Object Defined Error". It doesn't help that I can't find the complete listing of error codes[code]...
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Dec 16, 2008
I need to send some keys in way like it was sent from keybord
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Jan 10, 2011
I tried this code with windows7 and xp,with 3 different pcs and both with .net4 and .net3.5 and it doesn't work. Basically I want to press the left mouse button. Searching the net I've found that the only decent solution is to use sendinput function, two times (one for click and one for release) the function always returns 0 with an error code "operation completed", but the the click doesn't happen...
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Mar 29, 2010
is there something wrong with this? its not sending the key
Dim inputEvents As New USER32.INPUT
inputEvents.ki.wVk = Convert.ToInt16(key)
inputEvents.ki.wScan = 0
inputEvents.ki.time = 0
inputEvents.ki.dwExtraInfo = IntPtr.Zero
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Sep 17, 2011
I'm using sendinput to send keystrokes to external applications launched from my main application. However , the only way I have been able to get it to work is by focusing the external application then sending input. I want to know how to use sendinput to send keys to a background process without giving it focus.
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Jul 17, 2009
I am using SendInput to send some keyboard commands to a dialog box. It is already the active foreground window when I call SendInput. I first send "Return" and then a bunch of other stuff. The dialog box opens with a button selected by default, and when manually selecting Enter, the button is clicked on the dialog progresses to the next screen, but my SendInput call doesn't advance the dialog.
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Jun 11, 2011
I am replacing an AutoHotkey script with a VB.net application. Part of the script involves sending keystrokes to an active application. VB uses SendInput and does send the keystrokes, but the application doesn't "get" them, but when AutoHotkey sends the same key to the same application, it works. I have verified that VB is indeed sending the keys properly. Does anyone know how to imitate the autohotkey Send function?
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Mar 28, 2010
i am trying to send keystroke using sendinput but it doesnt seem to be sending. I have sendInput declared in user32 class with the input type
dim key as Keys = Keys.A
Dim inputEvents As New USER32.INPUT
inputEvents.ki.wVk = Convert.ToInt16(key)
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am i setting the flags wrong to send a key? not 0 then a 2?
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May 4, 2010
Do you guys have any ideas how to do the codings for SendInput?Like a key is pressed and the data depending on what the user had entered in the TextBox will appear in a Notepad and then save it.[code]...
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Aug 17, 2009
I�m trying to achieve mouse movements with SendInput.
There is code that got from Pinvoke, [URL]
<DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError = True)> _
Private Shared Function SendInput(ByVal nInputs As Integer, ByRef pInputs As InputLanguage,
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Sep 13, 2011
Iam wanting touse sendinput in a dos or background type app (can be a regular app thats hidden) that emulates mouse clicks and sends mouse moves to another multimouse application. an project that im working on for my school i work at and i need to send the input to it. The overview of the project is i need to have this code be in a service that runs in the background that when a person does a gesture with my kinect code then it clicks the left mouse or sythesis it with sendinput (need mouse up and down sent for this to work). The end programs that receive input are: a program written in the multipoint sdk and mouse mischief. I though about using the default usb mouse driver as an emulated mouse driver to handle the part about creating a usb mouse device that works
since most newer computers are using usb.
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I have an application that requires data be entered, and after entering, a button is clicked to process that data. Clicking the button works just as it should--the data is processed properly. In constructing a test module, I provide a set of data values, followed by:
btnWhatever.PerformClick()
Nothing happens. I have used this syntax for years, and it has always worked flawlessly. I have triple checked everything else and isolated the problem to the failure of the PerformClick(). The PerformClick() is in a test subroutine that does nothing but fill textboxes and labels with default data, then calls the PerformClick() on the button to begin processing. Again, the button works fine, the data is entered as it should be, but the PerformClick() does not fire the click event.
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#Else
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