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Agein: DOSBox and Sendkeys

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First post, by nostradamus

Posted on 2013-01-14, 15:17

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I tried do control a DOS program with SendKeys (VB.NET). The program's reaction is always "Back to DOS?" which usually occurs, when the ESC-Button is pressed.

I tried

1usescancodes=false

in the config-file without success.

Does somebody know a solution?

Have a nice apocalypse!

Reply 1 of 2, by Dominus

Posted on 2013-01-14, 17:18

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You have to be more verbose. What program and what does sendkey do?

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Reply 2 of 2, by Jorpho

Posted on 2013-01-14, 18:35

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Funnily enough, we had exactly this same thread last month.
How to read out the screen

Presumably SendKeys programmatically sends keystrokes to a particular Windows application.

Controlling application in DOSBox from outside suggests SDL functions should be used instead.

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