I want to send keys to other application with focusing on it with VB.NET. I want to be able to send a Keydown message and a KeyUp message. But without focusing on the application I want to send keys to.
The following example focuses on the application when it is sending the keys. I don't want that.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/18366/Sending-Keystrokes-to-another-Application-in-C
The reason for this is I want to be able to Login with 2 games/windows onto 1 server and play with both of them. I have macros keys so I can set them to run this code. which will for example move the character on the 2nd game window while I control the character on my 1st game window. Like send "W" to move the 2nd character forward.
Any help?
In a quick research (I bet you dit it as well), I haven't found it possible.
SendKey is a way to simulate inputs at OS level, and not application level.
A possible workaround
That said, one way you could accomplish that would be creating a Virtual Machine and then run your automation script on it, keeping the host OS free. I'm just affraid that depending of the resources required by the game your are running (3D renderization), the VM specs maybe won't fit.
(Since I hate answers as "you can't do that", I just found interesting to share this palliative)
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I am trying to create a VB.net program to help me fill the properties form in my Solidworks Model. My program uses pixel by pixel comparison to find out where should fill the information and then send keystroke to fill the properties form.
My program works in my home computer. However, it does not work in my company computer. I found out that my company computer does not run "SendKeys.Send". Is there anyway to get around it?
I had the same issue but I was trying on a school computer try to make a game. I would bother tying to get around it "That makes your program malware. – jmcilhinney"
Your company computer has security measures for a reason. Don't try to by pass them ever!
I am trying to create an accessibility app that will type in multiple windows at once, neither of which are owned by my app. For instance, let's say you have two Microsoft word documents open. When you hit a keystroke I want the command to go to both windows.
I have tried using Quartz events services, but it looks like it will only allow you to post to events either on a global or process level. But if two windows are running for the same process, how do I post to a specific window?
There's also the issue of the person typing in one window, while the content is being copied to the next.
Is it possible to post to a single window?
PS I know it's possible to do this in Windows
MacOS X includes a few tools which may be helpful. You should look into the Accessibility framework, Automator actions, and AppleScript. You should also be aware of application-specific solutions; in the case of Word, for example, you might look at VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). All of these tools provide ways that you can modify the content of other applications. Unfortunately, the level of support for each one varies from one application to another, and the way they're used also varies. So, it's unlikely that you'll find a single solution that works for all applications.
It's unlikely that you'll find a way to insert events directly into another process's event queue. That'd be a huge security hole, for one thing. Even if you could do that, you really wouldn't be able to target specific windows with your events. Mac applications use a responder chain that sends keystrokes to the "first responder", usually a component of the active window.
I am now motivated to explore a coding language so that I can make the best solution possible.
But I am not sure of the capabilities of all coding langugages, so I am asking for advice.
I want to automate some of the daily processes I do at the office. There is an external database on the internet that we use. We access it with a smart card and secured http.
In short, these are the actions that I do each time I restart the browser or a session ends:
Open a Secured HTTP. /....jsp
After being promted I choose an installed certificate
A smart card is called and I enter a PIN. /charismatics smart security interface/
The page asks me to log in with a username and password.
I open the desired link.
I extract the data from the opened webpage manually.
Is it possible to have all these action automated by code?
THANK YOU FOR ANY SUPPORT
If you get a PIN screen from the charismatics smart card security interface instead of from the operating system then it it may be very hard to automate this. Your program is unlikely to get access to the PIN popup Window.
If you get the PIN prompt from a CSP (as you mentioned in the comments) then it may be possible to automate the PIN login. The PIN is normally used to set up the SSL/TLS connection, so having it open in the browser won't help you much, unless you program the browser itself.
If you are bound to CSP's it may be best to keep to C#/.NET. There are of course bindings for other runtimes, but it is better to have as much control as possible.
You may want to take a look at topics such as parsing HTML, because that's something you certainly need to do. Life becomes a lot harder if the web-pages are filled in using JavaScript, so you may check for that first.
Now if you want to manually choose a link you may want to render the page in your own application and handle the download yourself.
This is certainly not a task I would recommend when starting off on an unknown programming language. I would find this a tricky task - there are a lot of ifs left with this description.
I have developed a small software. I want to provide and run it commercially only. I want it to be run in the machines who have purchased it from me.
If someone copies it from my clients computer and runs it in next computer, I would like to stop functioning/running the software.
What can be the ways to prevent the piracy of my software?
Adaption of one of my previous answers:
There are a few ways to "activate" copied software to try to stop casual copying of the application.
In the most simplistic case, a registration code ("CD key") purchased from you, possibly via your website, and it is sent to the user who enters it into the program or installer. The whole process can basically be done offline; the program itself locally determines that the code is valid or invalid.
This is nice and easy, but it extremely vulnerable to key sharing - since there's no "phoning home" then the application cannot know that thousands of different people are all using the same key that they got off the internet or a serial library or their friend. It's also reasonably easy to make "keygens" which generate valid-seeming keys that were never actually issued by the developers.
Then we get into online registration. You still have some kind of code, but the program will phone home back to the server to determine whether the code is valid and usually unique. This stops basic key sharing, because the company knows if too many people from all over the world are all using the same key. Perhaps there is some kind of identification involved using MAC address, too, with infinite registrations allowed on the same hardware but maybe a limited number on what appears to be a different computer.
This is still pretty easy and stops simple key sharing. People will actually have to get into cracking the software or faking the server response to get past it.
Sometimes the program itself is partially/mostly encrypted and is only decrypted by the online registration step. Depending on how well this is obfuscated then it can be pretty difficult and time consuming to crack. Bioshock was a high-profile example of this - debuting with a brand new encryption/copy protection scheme that took around two weeks from release to be broken.
Finally, a particularly guarded application might stay in constant contact with the server, refusing to work at all if the connection is severed.
If you know for sure that all your users will all have reliable internet connections then it can be considered quite a strong way to protect the app, at the cost of privacy and some user distrust of the spyware.
In this case to get around the activation they would need to fake the server itself. Steam emulators and private WoW servers are an example of this.
And in the end, nothing is uncrackable.
In a nutshell: you can't.
Even very sofisticated systems (e.g. dongle keys) can be circumvented.
I guess your best call is to give a code to your customers and have an online check for that code, so that it cannot be used twice.
Of course, that can be circumvented too but...
As nico said you really can't.
A simple solution might be to generate (registration/activation) codes that are based on hardware or software installed on the particular computer - eg video card serial id or c:/windows creation time.
I have one idea may be it works.
What we can do, we will make an encorrupted database field and that field will be empty for the first time as soon as i install my software to some machine it will read the Mac Address + Mother Board Serial + Processor ID and make an encorrupted value with the combination of these three and write in to that field which i left empty for the first time use.
After that every time my application will read these three values and recreate the encrupptted value in the same manner and compare with the value of that database field. If the value of the database field and the value of the regenerated encrroupted field is equal, that means the computer is same other wise it is installed on some other machine in this case you delete all the code and can make the system unstable to punish the person also :) ...
Please let me know about your opinion about this idea.
The best way is to use some sort of hardware-locking in which your license code contains encrypted info about the machine on which it will run. Your software will then check for this info and match it with the current computer and if the match is successful, the license is deemed valid.
Sure, any scheme can be cracked by someone on the face of the planet, but that does not mean you shouldn't use a protection scheme.
If you are looking for a ready-made scheme for this, have a look at CryptoLicensing.
Companies such as ours (Wibu-Systems), Safe-Net, and Flexera (expensive) offer dongle-free solutions as well as ones based on hardware. But _simon was right in that a dongle is the only iron-clad protection. All software-based systems can be cracked; it's just that some are more difficult than others. Really good hardware-based solutions are effectively uncrackable. No one has yet cracked the CodeMeter stick unless the implementation was flawed.
How would one go about capturing users keystrokes in the SMS composer on the Symbian OS, specifically for a Nokia N73 (or any of the symbian supported devices http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian_OS#Devices_that_have_used_the_Symbian_OS)? I'm new to symbian development and I'm trying to write an application to analyse writing styles of those who send SMSs. Any information (or push in the right direction) would be great.
Many Thanks,
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Actually, you can capture keystrokes destined for any application in Symbian OS.
RWindowGroup::CaptureKey() and RWindowGroup::CaptureLongKey() allow your executable to capture keys from any applicaton, whether yours is in the foreground or not.
However, in this case this may prove to be tedious - these two functions work by capturing specific key codes and modifier combinations, so you would have to set up a lot of captures to deal with all the key combinations in the SMS composer.
You would also have to pass the event on to the SMS composer once your exectuable had captured it. Whilst nominally possible using RWsSession::SendEventToWindowGroup() or TApaTask::SendKey(), there are complexities involved the events arrive in right order (i.e. key down, key event, key up) and behaviour of different FEPs (Front End Processors) for user input.
So whilst it is nominally feasible to do what you require as above, it would prove to be tedious to implement and test, bordering on the risky. If all you want to do is analyse writing style to collect data (rather than in a product app), you might be better off writing your own SMS composer - there are plenty of examples on the Forum Nokia web site of editors and SMS sending.
On a related note - is there an API that can detect all the keys being pressed at once as I stamp on my Symbian phone in frustration at its APIs? ;-)
Well, there are several levels to answering to your question.
The keystrokes are actually captured by the message editor application. So, either it provides an API to feed you all its keystrokes (you can look for one on http://forum.nokia.com. You'll find the message editor API but it will be mostly about re-using GUI controls and not what you're looking for) or you would need a transparent application of your own that stays in the foreground and captures keystrokes before feeding them back to whatever application happens to be right behind. Fortunately (for obvious security reasons), Symbian OS will not allow you to do the later.
You can, however, have your own application read messages when they are saved in the phone memory: when they are saved in the Draft folder or in the SMS Outbox.
The obligatory shameless plug: I would advise reading the messaging chapter of http://www.quickrecipesonsymbianos.com in order to understand how to use the Symbian Message Store
The classes of interest in your case are : CmsvEntry, CMsvSession, MMsvSessionObserver, CMsvOperation and CSmsClientMtm.