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DirectInput problem - Simulating Keystrokes -

I'm trying to make a program that simulates a keystroke for a game (have tried keybd_event, and postmessage/sendmessage), and I can get it to work when the game is in a state where it seems to accept regular windows keyboard events (like, when you are typing text to say to another person), but the game will not accept the same code any other time. It's a DirectX 7.0a based game, so I'm thinking that it only accepts DirectInput keystrokes during regular play (as long as you're not chatting).

I saw another example of this in this thread:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...put+directx+xp

I'm getting the same exact problem. It works in Windows 2k, but not XP.

Now, the thing I'm wondering is if there's any way to simulate a DirectInput keystroke, or to fix this problem with XP (it's probably something pretty simple, but I've searched for 3 days and haven't found a thing).

If anyone can help, it would be much appreciated.

 

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