Question

I’m currently working on a Program, that presses buttons for me. I’m working on WPF but I already finished my design in XAML, now I need some C# code.

I have a TextBox that should handle all the SendKeys input. I want to extend it’s functionality by providing some CMD-like arguments. The problem is, I don’t know how. ;A; For example:

W{hold:500}{wait:100}{ENTER}

This is a example line that I’d enter in the textbox. I need 2 new functions, hold and wait.

1. The hold function presses and holds the previous key for the specified time (500 ms) and then releases the button.
2. The wait function waits the specified time (100ms).

I know I could somehow manage to create this function but it would end up being not user editable. That’s why I need these arguments.

Answer 1

You’re trying to ‘parse’ the text in the text box. The simplest way is to read each character in the text, one by one, and look for ‘{‘. Once found, everything after that up until the ‘}’ is the command. You can then do the same for that extracted command, splitting it at the ‘:’ to get the parameters to the command. Everything not within a ‘{}’ is then a literal key you send.

There are far more sophisticated ways of writing parsers, but for what it sounds like you are doing, the above would be a good first step to get you familiar with processing text.