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From: lwallace@javelin.es.com (Raptor)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Duplicating keyboard messages...?
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.164227.19245@javelin.es.com>
Date: 19 Mar 91 16:42:27 GMT
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah
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Hi all, I'm trying to write sort of a macro recorder.  It'll send imaginary
keystrokes to other applications in an effort to invoke some of their menu
accelerator functions.

I've sent WM_KEYUPs and WM_KEYDOWNs to other applications, and used Spy to
examine them.  The messages I send are almost identical to the messages Spy
shows when I click on the app and press the keys myself.  However, the only
application I've been able to get to respond to my program is SDKHelp.  I've
only tried the apps in the SDK tools group; Dialog and SDKPaint ignore me.

The only difference I can detect between my app's messages and the messages
from the keyboard are those "used internally by Windows" bits in the WM_KEY*
message lParams.  And so far I've only sent WM_KEYDOWN, WM_KEYUP, WM_SYSKEYDOWN
and WM_SYSKEYUP messages.  Spy tells me WM_MENUCOMMAND shows up when I press
keys; please tell me this is something done in response to the WM_KEY* messages.

What else does my program have to do?  Am I seeing an idiosyncracy in Microsoft
tools, and can I expect "normal" Windows applications to react as I expect?

Thanks in advance!

-- 
Lynn Wallace			   |I am not an official representative of
Evans and Sutherland Computer Corp.| <- E&S.  Or for that matter, unofficial.
Salt Lake City, UT 84108	   |Internet: lwallace@javelin.sim.es.com
			War not make one great! -- Yoda