[Rd] Using Windows API functions in R

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-----Original Message-----
From: Yuri Volchik <volchik2000 at list.ru>
To: r-devel at r-project.org
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:27:13 +0000
Subject: Using Windows API functions in R

> 
> Hi to all.
> 
> In programming one application i have to "press" button to have
> application started, which i would like to do automatically from R.
> To do that i want to use library "user32" function "SendInput"
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/userinput/keyboardinput/keyboardinputreference/keyboardinputfunctions/sendinput.asp
> 
> So far i managed to write the following
> 
> system(shQuote("C:/Program Files/1.exe"),wait=F)
> system32 <- file.path(Sys.getenv("windir"),"system32")
> user32 <- file.path(system32,"user32.dll")
> dyn.load(user32)
> .C("SendInput",..)
> 
> And now i'm at loss how to represent the data structure needed for
> correct call to that function, may be somebody could help me with
> this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  Yuri                          mailto:volchik2000 at list.ru
> 
> 
>