A Background thread is only a task which normally start and ends done inside the program. In your case, you are bypassing the keyboard driver stack entirely. I've gone as far as to getting the current active window, so if a user is there it switches, sends a key, and switched back. # in command prompt, type "pip install pynput" to install pynput. Minimize all but the active desktop window (restores all windows on second stroke) Windows logo key +Shift+Up arrow. The issue is that sending keystrokes to and from applications is not usually necessary, except as a last resort, because of its unreliability. Receive data from multiple tcp server in single application. It means when one of such secondary windows are focused, the third party software doesn't detect the VK_SPACE. System Events can only send keystrokes to the frontmost window, it cannot send keystrokes to a window that's in the background . Hi, Sending Keystrokes to background-window 04/10/2014 - AutoIt - 6 Replies Hi, i'm trying to build a simple bot for aura kingdom, that is able to send keystrokes, but i'm lacking in Auto-it and general programming-skills. For example, I want to send CTRL + F. It seems that Sendmessage doesn't work, and sendinput isn't effective because the window needs the focus. The specified keystrokes will be received by the active control of the application. The Method to send Keystrokes to a Background Window described here requires you to create a script with individual keystrokes and then execute the script. Because there is no managed method to activate another application, you must use native Windows . import win32gui import win32con windowID = win32gui.FindWindow (None, "testing.pdf - Adobe Acrobat Pro DC") #win32gui.SetForegroundWindow (windowID) win32gui.SendMessage (windowID, win32con.WM_KEYDOWN, win32con.VK_NEXT, 0) #VK_NEXT is Page Down button. Recently I had to tackle a task where I needed to send keystrokes to another application, that are initiated from a .NET Windows app. The drawback is that with the delays in your code, that operation will be visible and will interrupt . Contents. This is a good idea anyway, in case you happen to create other windows in that Screen session for . python by expliked on May 13 2020 Comment. If u are interested in the Syntax and the Parameters here is the Link to the MSDN Site. Simon. Discussion on Sending Keystrokes to background-window within the AutoIt forum part of the Coders Den category. If you load the process with CreateProcess, you'll get the the main thread ID (tid) as well as the process ID (pid). Right now i have a code that uses sendkey commands to navigate that program and get data. I tried ControlSend with AHK but cant seem to make it work. PoE has internal checks to see if it is in the foreground before processing the input.

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