simulating GUI events from CVI on other software.

[Satya4mIND]

hi all,

in our appication we need to automate some text entry in text boxes and button clicks in another 3rd party application,

please help me by suggesting the functions/ API calls that can do the thing.

regards,

satya.

[Jumper_Bones]

Here's a partial answer, I'll see if I can find more later....

How to imitate keyboard and mouse clicks in C++
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Misc/Q_20633282.html


Advanced Key and Mouse Recorder 2.80
http://www.download3k.com/System-Utilities/Launchers-Task-Manager-Utilities/Download-Advanced-Key-and-Mouse-Recorder.html

[AndrewMc]

Hey Satya,

In CVI we have native functions for simulating key presses and such within CVI User Interfaces; however, to post to an external interface, the best way to do this is with the Windows SDK.  Here's a KnowledgeBase article that discusses some of the functions that you would use; for a full documentation on these kinds of features, you can look at MSDN to find specific functions.  http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/C5EDD606E6083DA1862573010001A5BD?OpenDocument

Additionally, one thing to note is that CVI Full Development Environment comes with the majority of the Windows SDK available in the environment (<CVI Installation Directory>\sdk) in such a way that you can simply include the necessary file in your program.  For CVI Base, only a portion of these functions are available.

Hope this helps!

[Satya4mIND]

thanks a lot,

i also got the same solution, now i can able to simulate the events from a VB program, now i am trying to call thiose dll functions from CVI application, some structures are used in VB program which i am trying to create in the CVI,

help me in finding any example application of using the user32.dll in CVI.

in worst case i can easily create a dll with wraper functions those can call the user32.dll functions. and include that in my design.

but its an indirect process, which may take a bit long time.

regards

satya.

[AndrewMc]

Hey satya,

We do not have any examples written for CVI that fake keystrokes or mouse-clicks in external environments.  What I would recommend is either use LoadLibrary (Windows SDK) to access the DLL directly or create a header file from which to derive the import library for the DLL.