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Emulate Key Presses On an App that takes no Win Messages

I want to send an Application Key Presses, To Automate some stuff that has to be done repeatedly and So I don't always have to cramp my fingers.

In C#, it's nice to use SendKeys.Send(), but this won't work because the Application doesn't take Windows Messages. SendKeys.SendWait() does nothing at all.

How would I STILL Simulate the Keyboard events?

Come To Think of It, I was going to use some P/Invoke to simulate Mouse Events too, but If it takes no messages, How Can I get around that?

EDIT - I can use mouse and keyboard to interact with the program, I just cannot manipulate it with Windows Messages sent from my own Code.

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Is it a console app? If so, maybe you should be SendKeys'ing to the command shell instance it is running in.

1800 INFORMATION  2009-06-10 09:02:38
No, This Program has no Console, sadly.
wsd  2009-06-10 09:21:54
It doesn't have windows, and it doesn't have a console for normal text entry. How do you normally interact with it that you would be typing to it then?
1800 INFORMATION  2009-06-10 09:40:27
It has a Window. It just won't take Windows Messages.
wsd  2009-06-10 10:18:56
How do you type into it normally? Thought control?
1800 INFORMATION  2009-06-10 10:19:50
I use my keyboard. I'm sorry if the question was phrased in a bad way, I'll do my best to amend it so it shows clearly that I CAN manipulate it, just no from my Code.
wsd  2009-06-10 11:32:20
If you can type into it, then you can use windows messages - this is how the keyboard messages are sent to the program
1800 INFORMATION  2009-06-10 20:45:44
When I try to use Sendkeys.Send, I get an InvalidOperationException which tells me the Application accepts no Windows Messages. This is Windows 7, which is similar to Vista in User priveleges. I would assume the App takes no messages from Processes with low rights, but still from those with system rights, like the keyboard driver.
wsd  2009-06-13 12:11:01
+1  A: 

Have you tried AutoIt?

fretje  2009-06-10 09:05:21
AutoIt - Perfect. I was able to Import the AutoItX Library into my Project in VS and It worked a charm.
wsd  2009-06-10 11:06:39

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