Sendmessage api question?

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using the api
Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hWnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, ByVal lParam As String)

what do the wParam and lParam do? what kinda stuff is specified in there...

and also how would i use sendmessage to send keydown event....

heres what i got...
Private Const WM_KEYDOWN = &H100

SendMessage apphwnd, WM_KEYDOWN, 0, 0

but what and where do i put if i want to call lets say H, E, L, L, O keys?

[Megatron]

wParam and lParam both contain message information.

For example, to send H E L L O, you would use:

SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYDOWN, vbKeyH, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYUP, vbKeyH, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYDOWN, vbKeyE, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYUP, vbKeyE, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYDOWN, vbKeyL, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYUP, vbKeyL, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYDOWN, vbKeyL, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYUP, vbKeyL, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYDOWN, vbKeyO, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYUP, vbKeyO, 0

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thanx

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it gives me error 49
bad dll calling convention

on line

SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYDOWN, vbKeyH, 0

[Megatron]

Make sure you declare statement looks like this:

Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, lParam As Any) As Long

[FOOBAR]

hmm, lol
it gave me 5 e's

i dont think anything is wrong with the code, i think it is just the app tring to recive it....

its a game(half-life) in theconsole, i can type HELLO but if i do the code, i get eeeee

any ideas on how to fix this?

[Megatron]

It's possible that the app your trying to send it to needs to recieve a WM_CHAR message as well. Try this:

SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYDOWN, vbKeyH, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_CHAR, vbKeyH, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYUP, vbKeyH, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYDOWN, vbKeyE, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_CHAR, vbKeyE, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYUP, vbKeyE, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYDOWN, vbKeyL, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_CHAR, vbKeyL, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYUP, vbKeyL, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYDOWN, vbKeyL, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_CHAR, vbKeyL, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYUP, vbKeyL, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYDOWN, vbKeyO, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_CHAR, vbKeyO, 0
SendMessage hWindow, WM_KEYUP, vbKeyO, 0

[Megatron]

You could also try a different (and shorter) approach by sending the WM_SETTEXT message.

sText = "Hello"
SendMessage hWindow, WM_SETTEXT, 0, ByVal sText