How can I generate system wide events on Windows?

Question

I would like to know how I can generate system wide events programatically on Windows. I am thinking of generating system wide events such as key presses, touch events and mouse clicks mainly.

Is it possible to generate these events with an user mode application or I need to write drivers for this? Any samples or links would be usefull.

Answer 1

(What programming language are you using?) It's possible in regular applications. What you need are "hooks" which are supported by the Win32 API. Here is an article on hooking in C#. Some are using the EasyHook library.

EDIT:

Here is the help on this topic in the Win32 API itself.

Answer 2

Use SendInput().