Why you shouldn't use SendKeys

[Pwnd]

Hydro, it looks like you double posted, but the post above yours is is "Cadet Crusher." Rofl, what the hell?

[~=HyDrO=~]

Hydro, it looks like you double posted, but the post above yours is is "Cadet Crusher." Rofl, what the hell?

1. notice the exact same signature?
2. quote it ;)

[Dyndrilliac]

Every thread that Indulgence posts in, the names and avatars of people randomly change to Startrek TNG characters. He did this last December. It's old.

[indulgence]

nubcakes

[beastlike]

keybd_event and sendinput are better. keybd_event got me through thousand dollar projects just fine.

[OmegaMatrix]

lern2not necropost.

[K? Pŕo?ćtiόnŹ]

keybd_event and sendinput are better. keybd_event got me through thousand dollar projects just fine.

how is keybd_event better than sendkeys?

[beastlike]

how is keybd_event better than sendkeys?

can send Non-Printable Characters or Unicode text. SendInput supercedes keybd_event and allows multiple keys being sent at once via nested structures but is more complicated than keybd_event.

[K? Pŕo?ćtiόnŹ]

Either way you cant direct the input without the use of other calls so sendmessage is still better in my mind.

[beastlike]

Either way you cant direct the input without the use of other calls so sendmessage is still better in my mind.

sendmessage will fail a lot of times, so it's definitely not better, i'll let you figure out why.

[K? Pŕo?ćtiόnŹ]

It's worked with every application I've used, you just need to figure out how the application handles its messages.

[beastlike]

It's worked with every application I've used, you just need to figure out how the application handles its messages.

try it on zonealarm or outpost, see how that works out for you ;)

[K? Pŕo?ćtiόnŹ]

I dont have either and I dont plan on getting either so I cant **** around with it.

[Belphegor]

Why would you hack your own firewall is what I want to know. :X

[beastlike]

Why would you hack your own firewall is what I want to know. :X

who says it's my own ;D if you wanna see something funny and have zonealarm make it popup from you trying to connect to something then kill explorer.exe from the taskmgr and see what happens ;)

[Belphegor]

I got nothing, results anyone else? It just restarted explorer, and the connection to the proggie was severed.

[beastlike]

I got nothing, results anyone else? It just restarted explorer, and the connection to the proggie was severed.

they must of finally fix it, zonealarm only accept keyboard/mouse input from explorer to signify real mouse/keyboard input as thats where it comes from, it use to be if you killed explorer zonealarm would no longer accept your input so it'd be stuck in its current state. Btw incase you havent figured it out, one way to bypass zonealarm is to inject a dll into explorer and send mouse input to close nag screen or whatever else...outpost isn't affected by this.

[Dyndrilliac]

The original topic was strictly concerning the downside of SendKeys, a functionality intrinsically a part of VB6 (I don't use VB.NET to know if it is a part of VB.NET as well). Therefore the argument of whether it is better to signal keyboard events using lower level function calls which deal with the input drivers as opposed to sending the request for a keyboard input event via the built in support from the operating system should really be moved to another thread.

That said, the crux of the matter depends on how well the OS and the software in question interfaces together and conforms to the same basic elements that can be assumed to be present. The primary drawbacks from using SendMessage or PostMessage (PostMessage actually functions better for sending keyboard input) come from the window thread of the application incorrectly processing keyboard event messages, and this does not apply to raw keyboard events generated by the drivers. In most situations there is no reason to use one or the other, though.