Re: Services Drivers and Messages

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you can't send messages from a driver and you can't hook the raw input
thread to customize it.

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<andy.somerville@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Doron,

Thanks for the thoughts. I will probably end up doing as you suggest.

Because being able send other messages as well is a *major* bonus (and
raw input is not available in win2k), my secret hope though is that
someone is going to say "...actually there is a way to send messages
from drivers". Regarding this, I've read some ("Getting Started with
the Windows Driver Development Environment") Microsoft documentation
which suggests hat its a good idea to put some of the code in a
user-mode DLL. This, however, conflicts with what I understand about
driver development, as well as some specific questions Ive seen asked
in the newsgroups. Since it seems if this is possible, that (if I'm
looking at this the right way) I would be able to send messages from a
driver as desired, I am particularly interested.

So: Do you know is this possible to do? and if so, where might I find
further information?


(As an aside: Anyone know where the kernel dispatches
mouse/keyboard/input messages from? and if there is any way to attach
some custom proceedures?)



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