Hi guys,

I'm sitting here wondering a bit... is it possible (in a performance-wise somewhat reasonable way) to manipulate the user's keyboard input? Basically, the thing I want to do is a little gimmick application that lets the lights & indicators of a users car flash in a certain way, which is meant to be used for pacecars. To achieve that, I'd need to simulate to LFS that the user has pressed the 7, 8, 9, 0 or L button on the keyboard.

I'd like to use it since (for me) it adds a tiny little bit to the realism if a car which is skinned and driven as a pacecar actually has flashing lights instead of the plain hazard lights going on-off-on-off ever so slowly. I totally know that this program might not be needed in any way at all, but it's also a learning thingie.

Any help or link to a site worth reading is much appreciated. Thanks in advance

Stalker

Find the handle of the LFS window and then using SendMessage with the appropriate events should be enough (WM_CHAR or WM_KEYDOWN/UP). It's not pretty and might cause other problems (for instance, if a chat window gets opened), but it is quick to do

There's LFSStrobe which sounds like exactly what you are trynig to do...

http://www.lfsforum.net/showth ... 3761&highlight=strobe

Isn't this possible via LFS scripts? (controlling the blinkers on a time delay that is)

SendKeys?

Quote from xaotik :

Isn't this possible via LFS scripts? (controlling the blinkers on a time delay that is)

No, because there is no wait command in the LFS scripting system.

Quote from Bean0 :

There's LFSStrobe which sounds like exactly what you are trynig to do...

http://www.lfsforum.net/showth ... 3761&highlight=strobe

As I said, it's also a matter of learning for me. However, I did not know LFSStrobe, thanks for the hint.

Thanks for the SendKeys link, AndroidXP, that one was exactly what I searched for :-)

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SendKeys?


No, because there is no wait command in the LFS scripting system.

Just me being pedantic, but there is a new LFS scripting /wait command, but would help not in this case at all as LFS freezes momentarialy when you execute /wait.

/wait E C :like exec but LFS hangs until E exits, with command line C

Yes, well, no. Okay, there is a "wait" command, but it does something completely different than what I'm talking of. Tbh, I forgot about the LFS version of this command and was thinking in terms of Half Life/Source engine scripting, where "wait" simply skips a frame (not terribly useful either, but better than nothing).

What we'd need would be a "/pause ms" command, that simply halts script execution for <ms> milliseconds. But at the same time, there's so much more you could copy from many first person shooter's scripting architecture to make LFS scripting more useful and intuitive. Like aliases.