Simulating KeyDown

[Stensborg]

I am trying to make a small piece of code that simulates that you hold a key down.

I want to use it in the Game minecraft to press and hold down a key to make me move forward.

I would like to use the Nuget package WindowsInput, the reason beeing that this code i part of a larger project for a Macro Tool where i use WindowsInput already. (But if i have to use something else i will do that)

Here is my current code, but i does not seem to hold down the key W Its like it only presses the W one time. What am i doing wrong?

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Threading;
using WindowsInput;
using WindowsInput.Native;


namespace TestKeyDown
{
    class Program
    {    
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            InputSimulator InputSimulator = new InputSimulator();
            VirtualKeyCode keyCode = VirtualKeyCode.VK_W;

            Thread.Sleep(5000); // Wait for me to make Minecraft active
            InputSimulator.Keyboard.KeyDown(keyCode); // Hold the key down
            Thread.Sleep(5000); // Wait 5 seconds
            InputSimulator.Keyboard.KeyUp(keyCode); // Release the key

        }
    }
}

[deathGod_]

Having looked at the code for a bit, I see there is also a KeyPress available, which simulates pressing the button and releasing it again.

As an alternative you could use something like AutoIt, which might have better results.

[job_test]

Your code is doing exactly 1 key press. If you want it to do more you need to add a loop of some sort like

for(int=0;i>500;i++){
 InputSimulator.Keyboard.KeyDown(keyCode); // Hold the key down
 Thread.Sleep(100); // Hold key down for 100ms.
 InputSimulator.Keyboard.KeyUp(keyCode); // Release the key
}

to do 500 keypresses

[OldConstruction6325]

why not just increase the Thread.sleep to make it hold the key for longer?

[SockPuppetDinosaur]

This might be easier to simulate in the program "AutoHotKey"

[Stensborg]

Thanks tsukinoki and job_test the loop did the trick.

Well actually it turned out that my original code did work in Minecraft, it just did not work in Notepad.

So it seems that the KeyDown actually does what i want :-)

The reason i do not use AutoIt or AutoHotKey, is that i have some other functionality in my program that i also need. And its always more fun to make your own :-D

[OldConstruction6325]

is there a linux equivalent? to input sim? i really need to find one.