alpal has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

This is a sort of complicated problem, but probably has a really easy solution! So please bear with me.

I'm trying to write a program in windows so that no matter what window is active, a certain key or series of keystrokes will be output to that active window. For instance, this program is running in the background so when I have microsoft word open I could have the letter H be pushed every 10 seconds, but then I switch windows to notepad and every 10 seconds h is still being pushed. I need to be able to select a window and have the keystrokes output.

The purpose of this program is to help automate some work that needs to be done, and it's a lot easier than getting 16 of the little birds like from the simpsons to literally push the keys!

I've only programmed a chat bot in perl so my experience is a little limited, but a friend said I should try perl to see if it could do what I need. I just thought you guys know what's going on, so why not see if you had any ideas.

Just even a step in the right direction would be greately appreciated. Thanks a ton!

Alan

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Re: Keystroke output help needed!
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 15, 2003 at 05:08 UTC

    The sendkeys() function from Win32::GUITest seems tailor-made for your needs.

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