VB.Net programmer help needed (C++ geeks welcome too)

[Joker9125]

I've been trying to develop a game bot type program simillar to AutoIt in VB.Net but I plan on eventually incorporating some features that AutoIt Simply does not, which is why I'm trying to make my own and not just use AutoIt and hey its a good learning expirence. I have been able to get my program to make the mouse move and to emulate keyboard strokes in programs like notepad using simple API calls like

Public Declare Sub keybd_event Lib "user32" (ByVal bVk As Byte, ByVal bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long)

Private Const VK_A = &H41

keybd_event VK_A, 0, 0, 0

The application can send mouse events and such to games with no problems, however I have yet to be able to figure out how to get a keystroke to work, games simply will not recognize it. Currently I've been trying to get this to work on my own for a month and seem to have hit a brick wall and yes I have literally been through about 100 google sites so far, but 95% of the code examples I have seen were written in VB6 and do NOT work in VB.Net and the remaining 5% claim to be written in .Net but simply just dont work.

Im asking here because your already doing the part of my application that I'm failing at. I have taken some mid level college C++ courses and have already looked over the source code listed in the sticky but can't seem to find which part deals with mouse and keyboard emulation so I ask that if your response is "Look at the code and figure it out yourself" to please at least give me the exact file and function name I should be looking at.

So now after all that explination heres my basic questions.

1. How are you doing the mouse/keyboard emulation

2. Is this just not possible in VB.Net?

3. Should I just scrap everything and try it in C++?

[Oxin8]

1. I'm not a dev...

2. Yes, it's possible.

3. You're choice

I don't know much as I've only ever used 6.0 and never .NET but this should work. A quick search of the source code looks like "sendkeys.cpp" is probably where you need to look. If you mean what I think you mean by keystroke, you might have to send a key down, and then send that same key up. Maybe look into the SendMessage Api. Just trying to throw some ideas out there for ya.

[Joker9125]

*EDIT*

Downloaded the wrong source code by mistake................... :">

*EDIT*

Edited February 26, 2006 by Joker9125

[w0uter]

if you want it that bad you should actually try you know ...

the function is spread over a few peices

trace it from the send command

[Richard Robertson]

You can do emulation calls from VB, but C++ makes it much quicker with the super windows header of superiority, <windows.h>. If you are using .NET, there is actually a way to move the mouse, although it wasn't meant for such use. See (System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position As System.Drawing.Point). It is a read/write Property, so you can set it to a new System.Drawing.Point structure to move the mouse (new System.Drawing.Point(x, y) or if you are more courageous, Imports System.Drawing...new Point(x, y)).

[Joker9125]

Turns out I was missing something very very obvious.

Edited February 26, 2006 by Joker9125