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Cool. Reminds me of using SendKeys() in Visual Basic 6 in the 90s https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.visualbasic.devices.keyboard.sendkeys?
by philfreo 1y ago
Cool. Reminds me of using SendKeys() in Visual Basic 6 in the 90s
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.visualbasic.devices.keyboard.sendkeys?view=windowsdesktop-9.0 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.visua...
- anthk 1y agoAnd BeOS/Haiku with the "Hey" command which does literally the same, but far more than key input. You can interact with widgets too. Under Unix, there's xdotool and friends.
- sebastiennight 1y agoI loved SendKeys()! Used it to write programs that would run in the background & spook my friends by "typing" quotes from movies at random times on their computer.
- halfcat 1y agoSendKeys() in VB powered basically all of the AOL chat bots in the 90’s. It’s how I accidentally learned the Win32 API
- yarone 1y agoMe too! With Sendkeys and some Win32 API calls, I wrote an AOL add-on (available through Keyword: addons) called AoLOL!. It was my first software business. Q: How do you identify the AOL window? A: Look for an app with titlebar = "America[space][space]Online"