[C#] Simple class for sending chat commands (without memory editing)

[siriuz]

Although it isn't really related to Memory Editing, but I didn't found a better place to drop this.

When I was looking for a proper method to send slash commands to a wow window, that should stay in background, I finally found this solution.

It's stupid simple, because it does nothing else then copying your command to clipboard and then sending Enter -> Ctrl+V --> Enter to the wow window.
But since it took me like ages to come to this idea, I'm sharing it here, so it could be useful for someone else.

WoWSlashCommand.cs

An Example would look like:

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using WoWChat;

namespace TestChatCommand
{
    class Program
    {
        [STAThread]
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Process[] pr = Process.GetProcessesByName("wow");
            IntPtr hWnd_wow = Process.GetProcessById(pr[0].Id).MainWindowHandle;
            WoWSlashCommand.send(hWnd_wow, "/dance");
        }
    }
}

[JuJuBoSc]

Why not simply use WM_CHAR to send text ?

[siriuz]

Yeah you could do this in this way, too.
But for longer commands its slower as you can watch how every single char is typed into the chatbox ... so this wasn't a solution that I had called 'proper'.
It's maybe a matter of taste, but I personally didn't liked it

[Valediction]

I remember having done something similar some time ago, but using WM_CHAR as proposed. Indeed, for long comands there was a slight delay. If you tried to type everything as fast as possible, and since it was a multibox project (which requires PostMessage), you'd actually end up missing some chars.

This idea of using the keyboard might be better suited for speed, once basic synchronization is taken care of.

[Natrist]

So with this we could in theory send chat messages from an external program directly to the game?
Awesome.

That would be awesome for private servers.