What i want to do is create a simple windows application that will hook itself onto NotePad and then simulate a keystroke. I have the process of opening up NotePad, bringing it to the foreground and then simulate the number 1 being pressed. However, if I click off of notepad, whatever is active becomes what is being typed in.
How do I bind this application to notepad, so that I can click and type in whatever, and this application will still push commands into notepad?
This is the DLL i'm using to simulate keypressing:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Diagnostics;
using WindowsInput;
namespace NotePadTesting
{
class Program
{
[DllImport("USER32.DLL", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode)]
public static extern IntPtr FindWindow(string lpClassName,
string lpWindowName);
// Activate an application window.
[DllImport("USER32.DLL")]
public static extern bool SetForegroundWindow(IntPtr hWnd);
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Process[] processes = Process.GetProcessesByName("notepad");
if (processes.Length == 0)
{
Process.Start("notepad.exe");
processes = Process.GetProcessesByName("notepad");
}
if (processes.Length == 0)
{
throw new Exception("Could not find notepad huh....");
}
IntPtr WindowHandle = processes[0].MainWindowHandle;
SetForegroundWindow(WindowHandle);
for (int i = 0; i < 500; i++)
{
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(100);
InputSimulator.SimulateKeyPress(VirtualKeyCode.VK_1);
}
}
}
}