How do you make processing send keystrokes to games?

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Roger Bohl

How do you make processing send keystrokes to games?

in Programming Questions • 1 year ago

How do you make processing send keys to games like arrow_up, arrow_down, w,a etc.

So it's not about receiving keys like keypressed() but about sending keys.

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tfguy44

Re: How do you make processing send keystrokes to games?

1 year ago

First, you must promise that you will not use such powers to cheat at said games by teaching some program to play for you, especially in games that have rules against this sort of thing.

Promise?

You promise?

That's three times you've promised now.

Check out the Robot class:

http://wiki.processing.org/w/Robot_class

PhiLho

Re: How do you make processing send keystrokes to games?

1 year ago

Lot of games are protected against such abuse, anyway...
A language like AutoHotkey or AutoIt (for Windows) is better suited for this usage, anyway.

Roger Bohl

Re: How do you make processing send keystrokes to games?

1 year ago

I generously ignored tfguy44's immature remarks, as he contributed an useful class.

You two and everyone else reading this should know - not as a justification, but to avoid recreating the wheel - what I am about to do.

If you read my previous posts, you noticed I am dealing with the kinect quite a bit. As FAAST is still not open source - and it might not be written in processing/java anyway - I want to recreate it to add some important changes:

- less processor load

- turning to left/right should move the mouse left/right, same with bending forwards and backwards

- movement sequences should be recognized so natural movement is possible. Move the way you want it to activate it.

Hints about dangers of recreating the wheel are welcome.

PS: Autohotkey worked back in the day with Silent Hill but nowadays every other game is blocked.

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