Movement keys in games

[Xennon]

I am wondering how you macro the movement keys WASD etc of several games like World of Warcraft. I have tried simply sending the keyboard keys W - forward, S - back, A - left and D - right but nothing happens in WoW. I have also tried "Press Up" "Press Down" and other variants but still nothing happens.

Is there something odd happening with these keys or am I doing something wrong?

I even tried sending a string of W's S's etc but nothing again. Essentially I want to create a macro that will move my char forwards, back left or right. How far to move will probably be the next challenge, but for now I cannot get WoW to respond to the macro sent keys.

Any help?

[Rain]

Some thoughts:
Make sure the game is in focus before sending the keyboard commands.

Play the game and record your commands. Then run the recorded macro and see if it's controlling your game.

[Xennon]

Tried all that. The record option actually only looks like it's feeding a looooong string of w's or whatever key I use to move the toon. Playing the recording back actually does not work either .. the char does not move.

I managed to *prove* that the sent keystrokes are being accepted because if sent while AFK, the msg "You are no longer AFK" is returned by the game. So the game is *seeing* the keystrokes, just not responding like it does when I use the actual KB.

Since the purpose of the exercise was to prevent being disconnected due to being AFK, the maco I made achieves this. I just think it's odd that the game responds differently. Not sure is others do this, but WoW sure does.

Thx for your input tho.

[Marcus Tettmar]

Some games use their own low level keyboard drivers.

[idiot]

you will need this code
and this website
http://www.mjtnet.com/vkcodes.htm

Code: Select all

Let>VK_control=51
Let>ExtendedKey=1
Let>KeyUp=2
LibFunc>user32.dll,keybd_event,r,VK_control,0,ExtendedKey,0
Let>FLAGS={%ExtendedKey% OR %KeyUp%}
wait>2
LibFunc>user32.dll,keybd_event,r,VK_control,0,FLAGS,0

the wait is how long to hold the key down it releases the pressed key after the wait all you need to do to edit it for the keys you wish to use is change the VK_control={here is number code from site you will put}
and wait is always in seconds so how ever long you wanna hold key is the wait