How would I make a program that can insert text into a text field in another program? Or click a button in another program?
gsingh2011 0 Junior Poster in Training
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You could implement your application as one which communicates with it's own instances over a network, then you can let your program send messages to the …
Jump to PostYou don't need hooks for that...
That's just an incredibly unhelpful and uninformative post.
Of course you don't need to use hooks, they aren't the only choice but it seems you don't have/know an alternative anyway. So I will suggest another, the SendInput win32 function, which may be appropriate …
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Stinomus 11 Junior Poster
What you would need there - and you are best off just googling for this - is a thread/process-specific keyboard hook. Essentially allowing you to monitor/insert keyboard events into a running application's queue.
gsingh2011 0 Junior Poster in Training
What you would need there - and you are best off just googling for this - is a thread/process-specific keyboard hook. Essentially allowing you to monitor/insert keyboard events into a running application's queue.
Thanks for the reply. I tried searching that and different variations of that, and I got a lot of stuff for the keyboard hook but nothing in how to insert events into an application's queue. Can anyone help me out there?
marco93 -87 Junior Poster
You don't need hooks for that...
MosaicFuneral commented: Aren't you just full of information. -1
tux4life 2,072 Postaholic
How would I make a program that can insert text into a text field in another program? Or click a button in another program?
You could implement your application as one which communicates with it's own instances over a network, then you can let your program send messages to the other instance, when the other instance recognizes the right message you could for example change the text in a text field :)
Stinomus 11 Junior Poster
That's if it is the same program though.
Stinomus 11 Junior Poster
You don't need hooks for that...
That's just an incredibly unhelpful and uninformative post.
Of course you don't need to use hooks, they aren't the only choice but it seems you don't have/know an alternative anyway. So I will suggest another, the SendInput win32 function, which may be appropriate depending on the application.
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