Programmatically Press ‘&123′ on Windows 8 Touch Keyboard .NET (TabTip

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I've been looking a lot recently and I can not even find anything to lead me to the correct place.
Any help would be much appreciated, even any suggestion where do i find TabTip documentation / api.

Posted 26-Feb-15 7:19am

Demian__

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 26-Feb-15 15:58pm

Why?
Pay attention: your " looking a lot recently and I can not even find..." indicates way too insufficient search skills. Such information is way too easy to find, compared to many other cases.
—SA

Demian__ 27-Feb-15 7:05am

Please, show me an examle. Thnxs

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Feb-15 8:49am

No, sorry. This will take a lot of typing. Better you please try to make an example. Remember that the interested party is you. If you face problem, I'll try to find out what's wrong. All you need to do is to act by documentation I referenced. If some part is not clear, please ask me.
By the way, you did not even mention the language you want to use.
—SA

Demian__ 27-Feb-15 11:03am

I dont mean an example for the question. You said "indicates way too insufficient search skills". I'd like you show me any of those "easy to find" documentation /apis for my problem. (Sorry about my english).
What i found was open and change tabtip layout. Nothing more. If you have the skills please help me

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Feb-15 11:10am

Oh... now, can my answer serve as such an example? Did you even read my answer? If this is not convincing, look at my other answers, those where I did not know the answer myself before I've done some search...
—SA

Demian__ 27-Feb-15 11:59am

Thanks Sergei, If you are insinuating that I did not research you are wrong. Yes, you answer serves, not much with the problems I'm dealing.
For example, how do you know if the user closes the keyboard manually with SendInput?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 27-Feb-15 14:48pm

Demian,

"Insinuating" is a bit strong word for that, as well as the statement "can not even find...", because you could have find it. After all, how come I found it in the past? believe me, it tool very short time.

Now, about your question. If course, just one question might not solve all your problems. Let's look at your last question. I have no idea what would it mean "closes the keyboard". It's possible that you want to detect the difference between closing something by the user and your code through "SendInput". Assuming this was your question, answering:

If your own code uses SendInput, this code certainly "knows" that, so there is no need to detect or figure out anything else.
Two remaining possibility are: 1) used use physical keyboard or mouse to close something; 2) some other program (not yours) does it through "SendInput". I don't know hot to detect the difference then, but the whole idea of this part of Windows API was to make it as identical as possible.

Let me reiterate: the whole idea to control an application not designed for such "collaboration" would mean a kind of technology abuse. I will understand that you do it for experimental purpose.

If I misunderstood your concerns, or you have some different concerns, you are welcome to ask.

—SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-02-26T10:02:00

The only correct way to programmatically simulate keyboard or mouse input is using the API SendInput:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms646310%28v=vs.85%29.aspx[^].

All other methods, such as sending a message, using some library APIs, depend on many factors, such as having a window prepared to handle messages in certain way, position of keyboard focus, and things like that, so such kinds of simulation won't work in general case, even when they can be used for those special cases. In contrast to that SendInput acts as it was called triggered by real event through the real device driver.

—SA