MouseEvents (and template matching)

[Kishima]

First of all hello, and thank you for taking a look at my problem.
Let me just give you a little frame on what I was requested to do.
Someone asked me if I could write him a little program for the game "SCUM"
that automatically reloggs him into *his* server after a restart.
For that I have to do three things:
1. Click the OK-Button from the "lost connection to server" prompt
2. Click the "Multiplayer" button
3. Enter the server ip in the "IP-Edit-field" and hit enter

My thought was to make a screenshot from the game window (which I already have)
and then search for the buttons using images.
For the template matching I use opencv.

I have several issues with that:
1. The template matching instantly looses accuracy when the window has different resolutions.
2. The template matching in general does not really work
3. I want to send "mouse events" to the game window, but it shouldn't matter if the window is minimized or not, and I found a function called "SendMessage", but it's not really working:

bool mouseClick(HWND hwnd, int x, int y)
{
   // some sources said this to be required, but had no explaination why
   if (!SetForegroundWindow(hwnd)) return false;

   return
      SendMessageA(hwnd, WM_LBUTTONDOWN, NULL, MAKELPARAM(x, y)) &&
      SendMessageA(hwnd, WM_LBUTTONUP, NULL, MAKELPARAM(x, y))
}

Oher ideas I had:
1. Call game functions like in game hacking, but it's risky (Easy Anti Cheat)
2. Just use python which solves the problems I have right now, but other will come up (and I'm better at C++)

Any ideas how to solve at least the SendMessage problem?
I know the other things don't belong to windows, but maybe someone has another idea I could try

thanks in advance ;)

[coder777]

Just use python which solves the problems

If it can be solved in python it should be doable in c++ as well. So how it is done there?

In order to send a message to a window you need the HWND of that particular window. You can use several function like FindWindow.(...) for this. Take a look here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-findwindowa

[Ganado]

I didn't attempt the code, but note that you probably need to run your program as an admin to properly send messages to other processes.