Sendkeys problem

[Nezo]

I'm having a problem getting SendKeys to send keystrokes to applications that are basically not windows form styles applications, such as direct3D applications.

For instance I want to send the {up} key to a game and make a character move forward, SendKeys does not seem to have the ability to do this directly to any D3D applications, even when I make the application active it still will ignore SendKeys.

I've been able to write scripts for such things in Autoit which seems to send just plain raw keystrokes. I guess my real question is, is there way to send keystrokes at a lower level than the SendKeys function in VB.Net?

 

[Nezo]

Well I managed to find something a bit helpful, altho I was looking for something a bit more simple that probably doesn't exist =D

http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32.SendInput

If that helps anyone else, it should do what I'm looking for but yeah... a tad more than what I expected =\ Any other ideas would be more than welcome!