hookless keylogger

[Spiritofamerica]

hello, I am trying to make a hookless kwylogger but I am having a little trouble: I am trying to use these api calls to be able to get keyboard data from other processes: //Attach AttachThreadInput( MyThreadID, TargetThreadID, true); //Detach AttachThreadInput( MyThreadID, TargetThreadID, false); All I do is set a timer that looks for the forground window, get's its process ID and attach my process to it's input queue. Then I just poll for keystrokes using GetKeyboardState.But here I have a problem: You see, If I was in a hook dll I would do this: BYTE ks[256]; GetKeyboardState(ks); scan=0; ToAscii(wParam,scan,ks,&w,0); but then again I'm not so where do I get the wParam from? Or how do I know exactely wich key has been pressed? Don't tell me you have to try out all the possible VK codes cause that is lame. Is there another, smarter way to do this?

[Lost User]

Have you considered using a non-exclusive DirectInput device with DirectX? :)

[Spiritofamerica]

no I haven't cause I don't know how what's wrong with the method I wrote above?

[Lost User]

As you said, you'd need to attach keyboard input to every thread you come across, and poll it with a timer, and then check all various keys whether they are pressed or not. You wanted a smarter way, so I gave you one. Setting up DirectInput will take you about 30 minutes, it's really that easy :) Take a look at this tutorial: http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1309.asp

[Anonymous]

This is me also but I didn't bother signing on cause my net is running really poorly. Ok, but I woun't have to carry any directx dlls and stuff with me will I ? I mean what if some man doesn't have directx installed on his comp what then?

[Lost User]

You don't need to carry any DLLs with you - every computer using Windows 98 or later has the nessesary DirectX DLLs already "on board". Check this site: http://www.computerhope.com/directx.htm I'd suggest you using the DirectX 5/6 headers - there hasn't changed much in DirectInput up to Version 9, so you should be safe using the DX5/6 headers