Anyone made something like this before?

[BjornSamuels]

I am looking to make for myself a similar, more simple, watered down version of a program that these fine gents have made:

http://www.iopus.com/iim.htm

Long story short, for starters I am seeking code samples to do the following 2 tasks:

- programmatically move and click the mouse

- programmatically type from the keyboard

For example, if I wanted to set up a program that would log me into my Yahoo mail when the computer boots up, it would open a browser window, move to the username and password boxes, fill them in, then submit the form.

I am having trouble finding anything concerning this, so if you've seen or done something like this, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Best to all,
Bjorn

[SeanGrebey]

Well, I haven't done it in dotnet, but you might look into SendKeys for simulating key strokes. As far as simulating the mouse, I would figure out how to do it via keystrokes. After all, in theory you can do just about everything in Windows without a mouse. Without trying, probably you'd have to launch the app from code, and then simulate <TAB> keystrokes to move between edit boxes on your app.

[BjornSamuels]

Ahhhhh

It appears the keybd_event is the API I'm seeking. It figures... just a few more minutes of searching and that's all I needed.

Now I just need to figure out what I'm going to use in order to read data off of Internet Explorer, something akin to a screen scrape I guess you could visualize it as.