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Re: [WIN] stuffing keyboard buffer

• Posted by gertie at ad-tek.net Jul 03, 2001
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On 3 Jul 2001, at 18:34, freeplay at mailandnews.com wrote:

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> 
> Hi Josh,
> 
> This sounds like the sort of thing that might be possible with a DOS
> interrupt call.  Have you checked out a nearby copy of Ralph Brown's
> Interrupt List?  I find the HTML'ised version at:

In dos, you can stuff the chars into the keybd buffer memory in low ram, and
then set
the char count in it's location, and dos will pick it up as if you typed it. At
the moment,
i don't remember where the memory locations are tho, i'm tired,, digging a
driveway on
hands and knees isn't easy.

Kat
 
>     http://www.ctyme.com/rbrown.htm
> 
> very useful.  It's where I learnt how to make low level sector reads and
> writes to floppy and IDE drives.
> 
> As for keyboards this might be a start:
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>     http://www.ctyme.com/intr/cat-023.htm
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> Hope this helps.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> FP.
> 
> >Hi, all. 
> >
> >I had previously asked whether it's possible to 'stuff' the keyboard
> buffer with a key-code, so that a program 'thinks'
> >that an actual key had been pressed (in the manner of Foxpro's 'keyboard'
> command). 
> >
> >(I have reviewed the documentation (both Euphoria doco and Win32Lib doco,
> and have searched the archives and recent user
> >contributions and studied those programs whose description or title
> contained the keyword 'keyboard', but all to no
> >avail).
> >
> >No one responded to my previous question (I submitted it in the wee hours
> of a weekend morning; maybe no one noticed
> >it), so I'm submitting it once again.  
> >
> >Any help will be very much appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >Josh
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