In some games, special keys can't be triggered about enigo HOT 13 OPEN

Thank you for the report. You wrote "in some games" does that mean that in general it works?
Also Windows makes a difference between Key::Shift, Key::LShift and Key::RShift. All these are different keys. The game might expect one of the other keys.

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Thank you for the report. You wrote "in some games" does that mean that in general it works? Also Windows makes a difference between Key::Shift, Key::LShift and Key::RShift. All these are different keys. The game might expect one of the other keys.

When I use the physical keyboard in the game, it all triggers the skills properly. But using enigo doesn't trigger it.
F1-F12 can't be triggered either.

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Can you please open Notepad and then run this slightly changed example

use enigo::{Enigo, Key, KeyboardControllable};
use std::thread;
use std::time::Duration;

fn main() {
    thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(2));
    let mut enigo = Enigo::new();

    // select all
    enigo.key_down(Key::LShift);
    println!("Press key");
    thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(5));
    enigo.key_up(Key::LShift);
}

Please try to press a letter key on your physical keyboard during the 5 seconds the example sleeps. If the letter is capitalized, we know that the Shift key works in general. Then we know that there must be some special case with the game

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Can you please open Notepad and then run this slightly changed example

use enigo::{Enigo, Key, KeyboardControllable};
use std::thread;
use std::time::Duration;

fn main() {
    thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(2));
    let mut enigo = Enigo::new();

    // select all
    enigo.key_down(Key::LShift);
    println!("Press key");
    thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(5));
    enigo.key_up(Key::LShift);
}

Please try to press a letter key on your physical keyboard during the 5 seconds the example sleeps. If the letter is capitalized, we know that the Shift key works in general. Then we know that there must be some special case with the game

It works fine in Notepad and other editors. But not in Guild Wars 2, I don't know why.

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Okay, thank you. That helps already to narrow it down. I probably need some time for this to investigate the issue.

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And in-game chatting also works, just not when binding skills.

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Maybe the old API to simulate input will work. Could you please try this changed example:

use enigo::{Enigo, Key, KeyboardControllable};
use std::thread;
use std::time::Duration;
use windows::Win32::UI::Input::KeyboardAndMouse::{KEYBD_EVENT_FLAGS, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, VK_LSHIFT};

fn main() {
    thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(2));
    let mut enigo = Enigo::new();

    // Simulate a key press
    unsafe {
        windows::Win32::UI::Input::KeyboardAndMouse::keybd_event(
            VK_LSHIFT.0 as u8,
            0,
            KEYBD_EVENT_FLAGS::default(),
            0,
        )
    };
    thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(20));

    // Press other key (Change this if you'd like)
    enigo.key_click(Key::Layout('a'));

    // Simulate a key release
    thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(20));
    unsafe {
        windows::Win32::UI::Input::KeyboardAndMouse::keybd_event(
            VK_LSHIFT.0 as u8,
            0,
            KEYEVENTF_KEYUP,
            0,
        )
    };
}

I don't know which other keys you want to press in order to see if Key::LShift works. Feel free to change this part of the example:

   // Press other key (Change this if you'd like)
   enigo.key_click(Key::Layout('a'));

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Maybe the old API to simulate input will work. Could you please try this changed example:

use enigo::{Enigo, Key, KeyboardControllable};
use std::thread;
use std::time::Duration;
use windows::Win32::UI::Input::KeyboardAndMouse::{KEYBD_EVENT_FLAGS, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, VK_LSHIFT};

fn main() {
    thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(2));
    let mut enigo = Enigo::new();

    // Simulate a key press
    unsafe {
        windows::Win32::UI::Input::KeyboardAndMouse::keybd_event(
            VK_LSHIFT.0 as u8,
            0,
            KEYBD_EVENT_FLAGS::default(),
            0,
        )
    };
    thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(20));

    // Press other key (Change this if you'd like)
    enigo.key_click(Key::Layout('a'));

    // Simulate a key release
    thread::sleep(Duration::from_millis(20));
    unsafe {
        windows::Win32::UI::Input::KeyboardAndMouse::keybd_event(
            VK_LSHIFT.0 as u8,
            0,
            KEYEVENTF_KEYUP,
            0,
        )
    };
}

I don't know which other keys you want to press in order to see if Key::LShift works. Feel free to change this part of the example:

   // Press other key (Change this if you'd like)
   enigo.key_click(Key::Layout('a'));

This example also does not trigger any skills that are tied to special keys (Shift and F1-F12 etc...)

I tried to simulate it using Python's Keyboard module and it works fine.

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Okay, thank you for trying it out. Back to the drawing board :/

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The same issue occurs with the game "Star Citizen"

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Apparently it is best to send both, the scan code and the virtual key, in order for all programs to register the key input properly (e.g something like this https://github.com/Narsil/rdev/pull/113/files). Maybe that would solve this issue as well

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I created #280, which might address this issue. It would be great if you could test it to see if it fixes it.

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Same issue with Ctrl F1

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