Sending keystrokes to Win95 Dos-box

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Author: Andy Kriechhammer
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 19:21

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follow up to: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc

How can I send keystrokes to a Console (DOS) application under Win95?

keybd_event() doesn't work in Win 95 for Dos-Boxes, although it works under
NT4.0.

I tried the following:

  // bring console window to foreground
  SetForegroundWindow(hGblForeGroundWindow))

  // Get app process and thread id
  intMyThreadID = GetWindowThreadProcessId(Application->Handle,
&intMyProcessID) ;

  // Get console process and thread id
  intToThreadID = GetWindowThreadProcessId(hGblForeGroundWindow,
&intToProcessID) ;

  // Attach console window thread to app
  AttachThreadInput(intToThreadID, intMyThreadID, TRUE))

  SendMessage(hGblForeGroundWindow, WM_CHAR, Key, lParam)


instead of calling SendMessage() I tried it with keybd_event() called two
times, first for keydown, than for keyup.
It only worked under NT4.0, not under Win95 :-(

SendInput() may work under 98, but I need a solution for 95. The good old
recorder.exe, digged out from Win 3.11 is able to send a recorded macro
containing keystrokes to a Dos-Box, therefore I suppose, this must be able
using just the 16-Bit API.

Any suggestions will be appreciated

TIA

Andy


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