I run virtual Dos Boxes across a network. My Autoexec.nt<br>
logs me into many servers. I would like to assign a <br>
"hot key" (i.e. ALT + P) that would type my password for <br>
me. Can I do this?<br>
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I wrote an app that does something like that once, types a certain text to where the caret is, for that i used the keybd_event API(), straight forward.<br>
Now the hard part, keeping the keyboard focus in the old app when a task switch occurs, my app was on 95/98 only so i used a timer and the ThreadWalk API from the toolhelp sdk, AttachThreadInput() to every thread so that WM_SETFOCUS would have the correct hWnd in wParam (old focus) and not NULL. It's a lousy technique and I'm sure there are better ways! But I hope I atleast showed you of how NOT to do it :)<p>
Good luck

WM_ACTIVATEAPP has the thread losing the focus id in its LPARAM, so you might forget the timer and do something like this:<p>
case WM_ACTIVATEAPP:<br>
AttachThreadInput(GetCurrentThreadId(), lParam, (BOOL) wParam );<br>
return( 0 );<p>
case WM_SETFOCUS:<br>
SetFocus((HWND)wParam);<br>
keybd_event(....);<br>
return( 0 );<p>
Havent tried this but might actually work!