SendKeys using DirectInput

There's no way to do that. What do you want to do? If you want to simulate the user pressing the keys in your own game, then just call the code that's supposed to run when the user presses the keys.

Are you sure? I'm thinking that this could be one of the methods of Action Mapping. But in my case, I'm gonna be using it for a non game related purpose. Might come in handy for different things. Does anyone else agree or can it be possible?

You can use SendInput().

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Original post by jacklin You can use SendInput().

As far as I know, this won't work with DirectInput, because it communicates directly with the driver.

SendInput() injects at a lower level than DirectInput, so the input that you send using SendInput() will be picked up by your DirectInput devices.

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Original post by jacklin SendInput() injects at a lower level than DirectInput, so the input that you send using SendInput() will be picked up by your DirectInput devices.

Thanks for the information, this is news to me [smile]

I have a function:
//******************************************************
static void SendString(LPCTSTR str)
{
INPUT inp[2];
memset(inp,0,sizeof(INPUT));
inp[0].type = INPUT_KEYBOARD;
inp[0].ki.dwFlags = KEYEVENTF_UNICODE; // to avoid shift, etc.
inp[1] = inp[0];
inp[1].ki.dwFlags |= KEYEVENTF_KEYUP;

for (LPCTSTR p=str; *p; p++) {
inp[0].ki.wScan = inp[1].ki.wScan = *p;
SendInput(2, inp, sizeof(INPUT));
}
}
//********************************************************

I use Keyboard_2003 sample from DX 9 SDK (June 2005) to test it. When I send a string like "a" nothing seems to happen. Am I doing something wrong? It works with apps that don't use DInput.

SendInput function is the right answer. Correct way to use it with DInput is something like this:
//*********************************************************
// Sets a button to down state
static void SetInputDX(WORD input_code_set)
{
INPUT inp[1];
memset(inp,0,sizeof(INPUT));
inp[0].type = INPUT_KEYBOARD;
inp[0].ki.wScan = input_code_set;
SendInput(1, inp, sizeof(INPUT));

}
//*********************************************************
// Sets a button to up state
static void ReleaseInputDX(WORD input_code_release)
{
INPUT inp[1];
memset(inp,0,sizeof(INPUT));
inp[0].type = INPUT_KEYBOARD;
inp[0].ki.dwFlags |= KEYEVENTF_KEYUP;
inp[0].ki.wScan = input_code_release;
SendInput(1, inp, sizeof(INPUT));

}

For DInput to see these codes properly you should pass DInput constants like:
DIKEYBOARD_A but only first two bytes (letter "a" is 0x041e , and so on).
I'we tried this, it realy works.