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From: risto@tuura.UUCP (Risto Lankinen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Duplicating keyboard messages...?
Message-ID: <1108@tuura.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 91 08:50:40 GMT
References: <1991Mar19.164227.19245@javelin.es.com>
Organization: Nokia Data Systems Oy
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lwallace@javelin.es.com (Raptor) writes:

>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.

Hi!

Since you cannot be sure whether the target reacts upon WM_KEYUP/DOWN or
the resulting WM_CHAR/SYSCHAR/MENUCHAR message, you should not send these
messages with SendMessage(), because they bypass the target application's
TranslateMessage() call in its message loop.  You should use PostMessage()
instead, which allows the target app. to translate the WM_KEYUP/DOWN's as
appropriate.

Terveisin: Risto Lankinen
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