simulating keyboard input with SetKeyboardState

[Spiritofamerica]

hello I am experimenting with simulating a key press using the SetKeyboardState while(true) { DWORD thread_acum=GetWindowThreadProcessId(GetActiveWindow(),NULL); UINT vk,scan; LPARAM lparam; vk = VkKeyScan('s'); AttachThreadInput(thread_acum,GetCurrentThreadId(),TRUE); BYTE byKeybState[256]; GetKeyboardState(byKeybState); byKeybState[vk] =! (BOOL)::GetKeyState(vk); byKeybState[vk] =!(BOOL)GetKeyState(vk); SetKeyboardState(byKeybState); AttachThreadInput(thread_acum,GetCurrentThreadId(),FALSE); Sleep(1000); } why does this not work? No key is pressed

[ThatsAlok]

Spiritofamerica wrote: SetKeyboardState Why Don't you use SendInput Api or KeyBD_event api..

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cheers, Alok Gupta VC Forum Q&A :- I/ IV

[Spiritofamerica]

because I have the latest version of zonealarm installed on my sytem and it doesn't allow these functions any more I am not trying to do anything illegal with this but I saw it in a article and said hey I should try this and it doesn't work So far za doesn't object to me using this function but it doesn't work for the others you mention above and for PostMessage(WM_KEYUP) it gives me worning messages so there are 2 reasons 1. I don't wanna upset za 2.I wanna do it with this function