postmessage for directinput

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Published on 2009-07-27T09:11:46Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 2:04 UTC
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can someone PLEASE point me in the right direction

all i want to do is simulate a mouse click in a video game that is minimized

the video game i am doing this for allows macroing like this, so its all good

however, the game uses directinput so using postmessage and sendmessage is not working

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