keybd_event(...) or a way to do Edit-Paste

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5 total messages Started by David Goodman Mon, 12 May 2003 20:39

#16432

Author: David Goodman
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 20:39

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Hi,

I have a program that runs Paint (..\System32\mspaint.exe)
and then pastes a graph I have in the Windows Clipboard
to it.   I am using:

hWnd=FindWindow("MSPaintApp", NULL);
BringWindowToTop(hWnd);

an then keybd_event(...); to push
keys in Paint's menu (Edit-Paste) but this method
doesn't work well sometimes, also if Paint's menu
is in other language other than English it
won't work. 

Is there other direct way to do this with APIs?

A snip on how to do this would be appreciated.

Dave

Re: keybd_event(...) or a way to do Edit-Paste

#16442

Author: JD
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 13:57

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"David Goodman" <dgoodman@nospam.com> wrote:
> [...] then keybd_event(...); to push keys in Paint's menu
> (Edit-Paste) but this method doesn't work well sometimes,
> also if Paint's menu is in other language other than English
> it won't work.
>
> Is there other direct way to do this with APIs?

As best as I can tell, you can't do it the way that you're
looking at with using APIs without knowing more about the
internals of Paint. Someone in the graphics news group might be
able to help you with this.

There are however 2 other options that come to mind. The first
is to save the image to disk and pass the filename to Paint so
that it loads it on startup.

The second is just an idea that may not be do-able - to use API
calls to access the Menus (assuming that they will always be
the same or at least consistant enough to be able to determine
that you're looking at the correct menu item) and then
determine the key sequence to push or simulate mouse clicks on
the desired menu item.

~ JD

Re: keybd_event(...) or a way to do Edit-Paste

#16447

Author: Timothy H. Buchman
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 14:45

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David Goodman <dgoodman> wrote in message
news:3ec00699$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> an then keybd_event(...); to push
> keys in Paint's menu (Edit-Paste) but this method
> doesn't work well sometimes, also if Paint's menu
> is in other language other than English it
> won't work.

Although it's more work, you can stuff [Ctrl] combinations keys.
Doesn't [Ctrl]+[V] appear next to Edit|Paste in the other-language
versions of Paint?  You could use that, instead of the underlined
letter that changes with languages.  I don't see any need to pull down
the menu at all.
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Re: keybd_event(...) or a way to do Edit-Paste

#16449

Author: JD
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 15:12

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"Timothy H. Buchman" <tbuchmanPLEASE(at sign)REMOVEcitycenter.org> wrote:
> [...] You could use that, instead of the underlined letter
> that changes with languages.

It never accured to me that he wasn't pushing Ctrl_V. Good catch.

~ JD

Re: keybd_event(...) or a way to do Edit-Paste

#16452

Author: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 16:44

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"David Goodman" <dgoodman@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:3ec00699$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

> Is there other direct way to do this with APIs?

Since you already have the HWND to Paint's window, you could try simply
sending it a WM_PASTE message directly.


Gambit

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