Hello,

I'll try and best describe what it is I'm trying to do and hopefully someone can help me program this in C#.

So say I have program A and program B, program A cannot be modified or changed. Now in program B I'll have 4 different boxes containing text and a button called Generate. When I press generate it will automatically copy the text from box number 1 containing text. Now going back to program A, I paste the text from box number 1. So now what I'd like to do is while still in program A, when I press Shift on the keyboard, program B will skip to box number 2 and copy the text so that I can then paste it in program A and so forth for box 3 and 4.

Is this doable? And how can I accomplish this?

Thanks

 

I'm not sure that hijacking the Shift key is such a good idea, something like Alt+Z may be better, but Google "Keyboard Hook" - here is one example that that search turned up.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/19004/A-Simple-C-Global-Low-Level-Keyboard-Hook

You might also want to look at the Automation API, which lets you do thinks like entering text into an application from another application http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/windows/desktop/ff486375(v=vs.85).aspx

 

Thanks, the Keyboard hook is exactly what I was looking for.