_SendMessage to inactive window

[Nahrix]

I am trying to write a simple bot for a game to execute a simple repetitive task while I browse the web. I want to send a single keystroke to the minimized, inactive window. After much googling on the topic, I couldn't find a single case where someone had successfully accomplished this task.

Here is the code snippet of my attempt to send a single spacebar keystroke to the inactive window:

#Include <SendMessage.au3>

_SendMessage(WinGetHandle("GameWindowTitle"), 0x100, 0x20, 1)
_SendMessage(WinGetHandle("GameWindowTitle"), 0x101, 0x20, 1)

Thank you very much in advance for any advice you can offer.

(If it helps, I'm running Vista 64-bit)

Edited August 27, 2009 by Nahrix

[somdcomputerguy]

Try ControlSend. I use that to send to minimized, unfocused windows..

[Nahrix]

Try ControlSend. I use that to send to minimized, unfocused windows..

I am sending the keystroke to a game window that has no obtainable control to send it (ie the autoit info tool, or any other tool provides blank information in the control section). The only way this seems possible is to use _SendMessage or some other method.

[Nahrix]

Bump for desperate call for aide

[Nahrix]

Bump again

[WolfWorld]

Is it protected by gameguard or xtrap.

[Nahrix]

No, it does not use either.

[SmOke_N]

Keys are generally sent with PostMessage because you're not waiting on a reply from the window. Putting that aside for a moment, if you can't do:

ControlSend(handle to window, "", "", "{SPACE}")

( leaving the control id/ classnamenn param blank ) and it work, chances are, that it's not going to work anyway.

You could also test Send("{SPACE}") while the window you want to interact with is active to see if that works:

WinWaitActive("Window Name or handle")
Sleep(250)
Send({SPACE})

Other than that, anonymity of the program you wish to interact with will not help you much. You're making people take guesses that just waste their/our time.

[Nahrix]

I'm sorry, I don't want to waste your time. The game is called "Darkfall Online"

PostMessage doesn't work either, but Send to the activated window works perfectly fine.

Edit: Whoops, I tried PostMessage with another program which didn't work. AutoIt doesn't appear to have _PostMessage in the Include directory.

Edited August 29, 2009 by Nahrix

[Nahrix]

bump

[Nahrix]

bump

[LarryDalooza]

ControlSend takes a HANDLE so try using the handle to the window...

$hwnd = WinGetHandle("the window")

ControlSend("","",$hwnd,"test")

Lar.

[Nahrix]

Neither

ControlSend("", "", $hwnd, "{SPACE}")

nor

ControlSend($hwnd, "", $hwnd, "{SPACE}")

are working.

[Bert]

Can you get the handle of the window???? Every window has a handle.

[Nahrix]

I can get the handle of the window using the au3info tool, but attempting to manually use the handle, like so:

_SendMessage("0x0000000000150770", 0x100, 0x20, 1)

_SendMessage("0x0000000000150770", 0x101, 0x20, 1)

or doing the same with the ControlSend function, does not work.

[trancexx]

I can get the handle of the window using the au3info tool, but attempting to manually use the handle, like so:

_SendMessage("0x0000000000150770", 0x100, 0x20, 1)

_SendMessage("0x0000000000150770", 0x101, 0x20, 1)

or doing the same with the ControlSend function, does not work.

Remove quotations.

[Bert]

post ALL the info from the tool. Screen shot the thing so we can see it

[Nahrix]

trancexx: Removing the quotations causes an error, "Unable to parse line"

volley:

[trancexx]

trancexx: Removing the quotations causes an error, "Unable to parse line"

Remove leading zeros.

Or use HWnd() function.