From within GTA to Excel

[HelmutWe]

Looking for a new challenge I got the idea of updating an Excel table from within GTA, e.g. having Excel adding "1" to the sum of a row (another won GTA race). I don't think programming Excel using Visual Basic would be a problem.  I could manage that some 20 years ago. But not leaving a running game, not even change the application <alt>+<tab>,  certainly is. Any ideas are highly welcome.

[Ath]

You can instantiate an Excel COM object, and manipulate it completely from there, so I think you'll manage that fine. Lots of resources to be found in 'da google' when you get stuck

[HelmutWe]

My question was above all how pass a keystroke to windows from within GTA. Excel would not be the problem. If I could pass any keystroke from within GTA to windows then that would be a progress.

[Deozaan]

Maybe AutoHotKey could be used to catch keystrokes and send them to Excel?

[HelmutWe]

Thank you. I got that hint from several sides. I would be happy if I could control Excel at all from within GTA. I don't need to collect data from the game. I fancy an open workbook and worksheet in the background. All I want as a start is to write "1" to a column's last cell. I once was half an expert in Word-VBA and Excel-VBA and am fighting HKA at present. It works in GTA sometimes, meaning I can sent keystrokes to the game in certain situations e.g. if the text-dialogue is open, I can't open nor can I close the dialogue, however.

[wraith808]

I think what you're seeing is the fact that listening from multiple sources can cause a source not to get the message depending on how the first in the chain deals with the message.