Sending Accelerator Keys To Another App?
Sep 8, 2009
I would like to send accelerator keys to another application that is not currently the active window. As a test case, I am trying to control Notepad. Code I am currently trying to use is posted below. I have been working on this for almost a full day (and night) without success.
When I run the code below, Notepad "beeps" and displays an additional "o" character in the edit control, rather than activating the File->Open dialog as desired. Winspector Spy seems to show that Notepad is receiving the appropriate messages based on comparison to messages that are received when I type the accelerator keys manually. So I ought to be fairly close. What am I missing?
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Dec 3, 2010
I'm using DevExpress 2010 vol 1, VS2010 and VB.NET. In my form I have a xtraBar which is used to create the application main menu. Each of the menu items were carefully captioned using the ampersand char (&) to create the keyboard accelerator key, so when user press ALT key and hit the accelerator key the menu is shown. The problem is I can't make the underscore show in any caption. For instance, my first menu "File" has caption "&File", but the "F" is never underscore, and pressing ALT + F doesn't work either.
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May 10, 2011
i use keybevent . The weird thing is that it works for notepad. I read that the problem is that the game has many forms and when i send the key maybe it is being sent to another form of the game and not to the one i need.
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Feb 22, 2012
I have a webbrowser in my vb.net application and I would like to enter text into a textbox on a site. When button 1 is clicked, it programmatically finds the text box and types the message in.
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
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Feb 6, 2009
I have an external exe file that runs like a console aplication (CLI). It is started as a process and is embedded in a Panel on a form. I can type commands directly at its prompt, but I would also like to send it keystrokes from a button.
Here is the code that starts it, embeds it into a Panel, removes its TitleBar, and positions and sizes it to the size of the Panel.
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim p As New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
p.FileName = "C:Program FilesConsole2Console.exe"
proc.StartInfo = p
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I wondered if SendKeys would work, but the documentation says it should be sent to the 'active window', but there I get confused, as my exe is a process, and I do not know if the Panel it is embedded into is the 'window' referred to, or the proc.MainWindowHandle, and I do not know whether it is active or not.
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May 22, 2009
I want to make a program for halo 2. I want to know how to make the program press
f+R
How can I do this? I want it to only send those keys to the halo 2 window.
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Mar 30, 2011
In my company, we make software which we use to test certain skills and intelligence factors of people. Some of those tests are time bound. On the test page, there is an asp control that shows the time remaining. When you right click that control, the javascript that provides the time is interrupted. To solve that, we disabled right-clicking. But now i've noticed that if you do a selection of some text and click the IE8 accelerator blue button, the javascript is also interrupted. Disabling the left-click if of course no option.
I've found an option in IE that disables the accelerator, so for us internally, the issue is solved. But we would like to find another solution, just because we cannot ask every one of our customers to go disable that option on all their computers.
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May 25, 2009
I created one download accelerator using vb.net. now I integrate that application in IE(i.e when user click on any download link it should open my application instead of normal download window.for example the system having Internet download manager(IDM) ,when we click on any download link in Internet explore it automatically open IDM instead of notmal popup. same thing I need to do in my application.
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Oct 21, 2008
I have a problem detecting whether one of the arrow keys is pressed, all the other keys seem to be detected apart from the arrow keys??? I have set key preview to True........ It detects the arrrow keys BUT ONLY if I have NO other controls on the form??? example..
Me.Text = e.keycode
It works, but then if I add a button for example, it stops.
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Jun 25, 2011
just wondering how i could give my auto typer hot keys, for example they press f1 to start the typer f2 to stop it.
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Mar 25, 2011
I'm trying to create a shortcut which expands or collapses my treeview using the ctrl+alt+up-arrow or ctrl+alt+down-arrow:
If Keys.ControlKey And e.KeyCode = Keys.Alt And e.KeyCode = Keys.Down Then
mytreeview.ExpandAll()
End If
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Jan 13, 2011
How could I loop through a list of the keys that are available in the 'Keys' enumeration? It seems like it should be something easy to do, but I'm not having any luck finding a collection that I can loop through.
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Aug 21, 2008
In a Previous Thread, I asked some questions about how to create graphics. Everything was OK, until I realized that the graphics are really slow. While I was trying to find out what the problem was, I realized that the processor load was about 50% and my graphics card was not used at all. So doesn't Visual Basic use the Graphics Accelerator to process graphics? What I made is not a real program. It's like an experiment (I tried to make an image flip). Here is the Code:
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May 27, 2012
I am trying to Send an Email with an attachment (using Gmail) but I keep getting errors like "Operation Timed out" or Failure Sending Email". It was working earlier today but I found out that i needed to add Using statement because the email was having a file open that had to be deleted after it was sent but afterwards it doesn't work.
Here's what I have (Portion of it):
Private Sub SendMailOneAttachment(ByVal un As String, ByVal pass As String, Optional ByVal smtp As String = "smtp.gmail.com")
Using oAttach As Net.Mail.Attachment = New Net.Mail.Attachment((Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData) & "\" & My.Computer.Name & "_" & fName & " .zip"))
Dim client As SmtpClient = New SmtpClient(smtp)
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The ports are correct I believe, no firewall up on my PC...
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May 23, 2010
So I found this little morpg. The game is fun but really repetitive. I would like to simplify some of the tasks in the game. I do not know how to start this project. How can I recored arrow keys and then tell the computer to enter the arrow keys? One of the objectives in the game is to run around a farm 2x and scare away any wolfs. So the commands would be "arrow key up" for 30sec and then "arrow key right" for 4 sec and repeat. I have worked with robots in real life for some time. We would fill arrays with such instructions. One of the most fun things to program! But I have no idea how to do this in VB.
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Mar 4, 2010
Which is better for Sending Files/Sending Images/Msg for P2P Chat?
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Feb 28, 2010
I need to capture the left and right arrow keys in Form1.KeyDown event so I can use them as hot keys. Instead they seem to be assigned to tab order (move focus to previous/next control) and the KeyDown event never gets called. How can I remove the arrow keys from tab order and use them for my hot keys instead?
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Jul 13, 2010
I am tring to send e-mail used VB 2008. Below is my code. The error message I am getting is "5 Failure sending mail at System.Net.mail.client.send(MailMessage message).I have two questions. 1.) What am I doing wrong? & 2.) Is there a way the get a more description error message.
message As
New System.Net.Mail.MailMessage
Dim mySmtpsvr[code].....
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Jan 2, 2012
I tried a couple of the send keys and they will not send any keys at all. I need a true Space bar input (SendKeys does not work for me). Also, I would like this to work on 32 and 64 bit computers. Let me know if you know of any good examples. I would love to have the ability to send a string in the future, but I can add that feature myself. [code]
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May 28, 2010
I was trying to follow a code example I came across the net for programmatically sending email:
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Nov 5, 2009
I'm trying to do is control an rc car from my pc and I'm trying to do this through an interface board I have. I have code below where I have started the design but I'm trying to figure out how to take inputs from the arrow keys which I cant figure out, I've just tried to set up a test by changing the colour of labels but it's not working, can anyone see my error? Please excuse any foolish newbie mistakes.[code]...
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Dec 7, 2009
I'm trying to disable these keys to prevent that user close form:
Private Sub frm_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles MyBase.KeyDown
If e.KeyCode = Keys.F4 And e.Modifiers = Keys.Alt Then
e.Handled = True
End If
End Sub
But not runs.
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Jan 23, 2010
I've tried various things but i can't seem to figure out how to get all the keys in a folder of the registry[code]...
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Mar 7, 2012
I need to store the value of ItemCode at coloumn 0 of my ListView.Using the following code in click event, it worksvrEditProductCode = lvVendors.SelectedItems.Item(0).SubItems.Item(0).TextBut the same code in selectedindex changed event is causing an index out of range exception.Please advise how to fix it. I want user to get this value when up/down arrow key is pressed.
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Jul 7, 2009
I am looking for a way to send keys to another app. I did create the other app and know all the controls it has. I have seen code using vb6 to change the caption another app and think it was also able to change the text/caption for controls on that form.
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Dec 18, 2010
I want to change the "a" and "d" to key controls left and right perspectively. and I am having some trouble wiht the key up event. KeyChar works for KeyDown (after I forced it to) but not for KeyUp (even though they share the same things). I finally figured out how to get the picturebox to change its picture, but now I am stuck at this part. getting an animation in, and when im done moving, get the animation back to the idle picture. im also having a little bit of trouble with movement. pictre - as a split second of movement and (space) as a split second of not moving, when i begin moving, lets say it goes this way (there is a space right after the first -, so that was a split second that it stopped and then started continuously started moving again). how can i make it so it goes nice and fluid once you start moving? also, if i were to press any single key while holding A or D down, it either stops and i have to press the key again to move it move or, it goes in the other direction(if I hit a then d, or d then a). and in the key up event, id like it so when the a (or d) key is up, it goes back to the stand animation, and when moving, it goes to the moving animation. [code]
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May 2, 2012
I want to use SendKeys, but only on itself, so if i minimize my program, I don't want it to send keys to other programs, but I want it to continue sending the keys to just itself
is there a way to target an application (self), or form or container or something?
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Aug 23, 2011
I use the up arrow means , it must goto the previous text box and if i use the down arrow means , it must goto the next text boxes. Totally i m used 15 textboxes. From text box1 onwards, if i use the down arrow means goto the next textboxes and also repeated to all text boxes.(1 to 15) From text box15 onwards, if i use the up arrow means goto the previous textboxes and also repeated to all text boxes. (15 to 1)Nithiyanantham
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Feb 29, 2012
I want to disable and ' in a ritch text box using the keydown event but i can't find the keys of these two characters.
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Jan 7, 2011
I cannot capture the function keys F1..F12 for my application. I am able to capture regular keys and modifiers such as shift, ctrl, alt, etc.This question recommends KeyPreview = True, however that does not seem to work for my application. What am I doing wrong?
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