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I had an idea for a Usb device that when you plug it in it simulates a Keyboard Mouse and small Flash drive, such that when special files written to the flash they are read by the device and sent as key presses or mouse movements that the computer can't tell did not come from a real keyboard. This should allow Ahk to do anything a user can do like !^Del or interact with stubborn games.

Interesting concept. What with the ability of modern systems to even boot off usb memory sticks and pen drives, this could have much wider applications than simply interacting with out of control games. Possibly things like anti-virus/anti-worm/anti-rootkey scans. Registry repairs, and and even data recovery.

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I'm not sure I follow. Would this be a physical usb device that would receive input from AHK on the pc and send based on that input? Or is it a software side driver that acts like the above?

That sounds like a waste of a USB port (no offence).

Try writing a keyboard driver that has some kind of COM or DLL interface.

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I think this is a good idea but I don't think it's necessary to have a physical device. You could make a device driver that behaves the same way. I have thought about making such a device driver. If the keypresses originate at the driver level they should be truly indistinguishable from real physical keypresses.

If you made a physical device then you might as well give it separate plugs for the sender and recipient, so you could use one computer to drive the keyboard and mouse of a second computer.

I'd have to agree with Jamie and Frankie; a virtual HID could accomplish all that in a software-only package; no need for a usb dongle at all.

If I had more time and interest, I would learn how to write drivers and make my own, then release it as an add-on for AHK (effectively a 'SendMode, Physical' option).

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Quick someone give [VxE] some time... Oh right he'd also have to be interested.

I think a tool like this would be valuable.

Would a driver require administrative access? I'm not sure anyone else cares, but this limits me sometimes.

It would require admin access to install it, afterwards it should be fine to use.

I'm not sure even your own driver would be required.

When you plug a new keyboard in, Windows already has the drivers to run it. There must be a way of fooling the OS into thinking a piece of software is hardware. MagicDisc, for instance, installs fake dvd rom drives, and windows thinks that they are real dvd-rom drives. The same must be possible for keyboard software.

David

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