Simulate Key Press At Hardware Level - Windows

I'm looking for a language or library to allow me to simulate key strokes at the maximum level possible, without physically pressing the key. (My specific measure of the level of

Solution 1:

Second solution, super convoluted, a ton of virtualization, diabolical, totally untested, but theoretically should work, unless the datasnip program doesn't actually write to the keyboard buffer, but instead simulates keystrokes like you've been trying to. That would suck, and I would find the description of their product to be highly misleading.

You'll need:

• http://www.priority1design.com.au/datasnip.html
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/com0com/

And some knowledge of writing to com ports... which, looks like there's a good python module here: http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/

First, write a small program that will send characters, hexcode, etc. as necessary to the COM port of your choosing. Second, create a virtual COM port pair using com0com. At this point, connect your program to one of the COM ports created, and datasnip to the other, making sure that both sides of the communication are using identical baud rates, parity and stop bits, and data length parameters.

At this point you should have a keyboard that is identical to a hardware one, as far as the OS can tell.

Solution 2:

I used this solution http://oblita.com/interception.html It fully meets my needs (sending keystrokes to direct input game)

Solution 3:

Can you use an MSDN language? They're fairly simple and well documented (google searches are better than the msdn website, for navigation, usually)

I found this bit, and I couldn't tell you if it simulates keystrokes at a level close enough to the hardware, but it does appear to be able to generate keystroke events that other programs can recognize, which is what your ultimate goal is.

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171548.aspx

The 'Send' and 'SendWait' Methods seem to be the key ones.

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.sendkeys.sendwait.aspx

Godspeed.

Solution 4:

I'm not on a Windows box to test it against MouseKeys, so no guarantees that it will work, but have you tried AutoHotkey?