Win API Mouse Output

[olie]

I am working on special Artificial Intelligence program that interfaces with other programs. In order to do so, I need the program to control the mouse, which can easily be done with setcursorpos() and the other cursor functions. However, i do not know how to make the program left click and right click on other windows as you would normally with a mouse. If anyone knows how to perform this action with Win API or even with C++, please drop the message.

 

[McMerfy]

To simulate a click you can post 2 messages: WM_LBUTTONDOWN, WM_LBUTTONUP to a window's message queue. It can look something like this:

  PostMessage(hwnd, WM_LBUTTONDOWN, MK_LBUTTON, MAKELPARAM(xPos, yPos));
  PostMessage(hwnd, WM_LBUTTONUP, MK_LBUTTON, MAKELPARAM(xPos, yPos));

xPos, yPos are coordinates in your window.

--- markus

 

[olie]

Hey thanks a lot. I figured it out. However, I used a different approach. I used the SendInput function to send a mouse simulated input to the window. Now, however, I face a new problem. The SendInput function also works with keyboard simulations, but I tried many times and it doesn't work. There must be a flaw in the code somwhere. Here is a copy of my code which involves the keyboard input simulation.



typedef struct tagKEYBDINPUT {
WORD wVk;
WORD wScan;
DWORD dwFlags;
DWORD time;
ULONG_PTR dwExtraInfo;
} KEYBDINPUT, *PKEYBDINPUT;
KEYBDINPUT kinp;
kinp.wVk = 0x1B;
kinp.dwFlags = NULL;
kinp.wScan = 27;
kinp.time = 0;
kinp.dwExtraInfo = NULL;
typedef struct tagINPUT {
DWORD type;
KEYBDINPUT kinp;
}INPUT, *PINPUT;
INPUT inp;
inp.type = INPUT_KEYBOARD;
UINT send=SendInput( 1,
(LPINPUT(&inp)),
sizeof(inp)
);