Automatic mouseclick and screenshot every minute.

I am playing Sim City on WinUAE. At the start of the game you choose your initial city layout from an infinite set of possible maps. The game loads a random city map layout at startup and it gives you the options to either "Use This Map" or "Generate New Map." I want to continuously click on "Generate New Map" and take a screenshot of the generated map. So I will hover my mouse cursor over the "Generate New Map" button, then the emulator will simulate a mouse click to generate a new map, I will wait ten seconds for the map to be generated, then a screenshot/PrintScreen will be taken. Then the process will repeat: mouse-click, wait, screenshot, mouse click, wait, screenshot on to infinity. How can I do this?

[Leffmann]

Go to the WinUAE input panel and bind F11 or something to WinUAE's screenshot function, and use one of the many macro/automation programs out there to record and replay clicking the mouse and pressing F11.

Arrrgh, I am so close! I mapped the SEMICOLON key to "Screenshot (file)" and the LBRACKET key to "Joy1 Fire / Left Mouse Button." I start the game up and I type ;[;[ onmy keyboard and it generates the new map and saves the screenshot and everything works great. The problem comes when I launch my special little C# program that I wrote that uses the SendKeys command to type nothing but ;[;[;[;[ every 30 seconds. The program works great when Notepad is activated, and types ;[;[;[ correctly, but when I activate the WinUAE window it doesn't work! WinUAE must be recognizing that an external program is trying to interfere with the program. Anybody have any ideas?

[Leffmann]

If you want to do it programmatically then SendInput() works fine, WinUAE will see those input events.

[jbl007]

Simple example with AutoHotkey (untested!):

F11::ExitApp  ; F11 to quit
Sleep, 5000  
Loop
{
        SendInput, {LButton}
        Sleep, 10000  
        SendInput, {;}
        Sleep, 60000
}

[Toni Wilen]

Did you try mapping events using "WinUAE null keyboard" instead of normal keyboard device? (In input panel device list)

It is default fallback virtual keyboard used when WinUAE receives keyboard event without keyboard identifier (which usually means it was injected event).

Mapping using "WinUAE null Keyboard" with my special C# program did not work. I have never used SendInput or AutoHotKey before, so I will look into them next.

[Anubis]

Just use MiniMouseMacro, to setup what you want to do on screen and hotkeys.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/minimousemacro/

It is easy to program and to edit...

None of these are working, I've tried Mini Mouse Macro and AutoHotKeys, they're all running into the same problem: they won't run when the focus is on the WinUAE window, and I've selected "WinUAE null keyboard." They work when Notepad is focused though. What am I missing?

[Toni Wilen]

Do you see any log messages if you run winuae with -log -inputlog 1 command line parameters? 1 = log PC keyboard events. ("winuae.exe -log -inputlog 1")

I was able to run the WinUAE program with logging in the cmd window. I see the log messages when I type out the ; [ ; [ keys, as expected. But I do not see any log messages when running Mini Mouse Macro. So, no, I think WinUAE is still not "seeing" the input.