can window form manipulate keyboard and mouse movement?
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hi i am using c# windowform 2005 i am trying to explore and learn if window form can manipulate mouse and keyboard movement e.g like a macro mouse to point 1,7 and etc and what classes they use if it is possible
yes it is possible. AFAIK you need P/Invoke for mouse automation, see functions SendInput and SetCursorPos in user32.dll; for keyboard automation the .NET System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys class could be sufficient. For all of them, you must make sure you are talking to the right window, which needs to have focus; so you will probably need even more P/Invoke and use functions GetForegroundWindow, SetForegroundWindow, GetWindowText, and maybe more. Warnings: 1. you probably need to include some delays, say Thread.Sleep(100), so the target application can react to your automation inputs (which otherwise would come much faster than a human user would provide them); 2. whatever you do it will not be absolutely safe. For one, there could still be a user typing/mousing around; second, target apps may suddenly throw unexpected stuff at you, maybe a dialog telling you the disk got full, the network connection was lost, etc. :)
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