I'm trying to use the sendkeys method SendKeys.Send(
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Function to copy whatever the user has highlighted. I have a console ap with hotkeys to open it. It locks up the computer and I have to use TaskMan to free it up. I know this is a simple piece of code but I must have something wrong with the sendkeys line.
I have a specific application (someprogram.exe) i wish to use the sendkeys command to perform CTRL + C from the application i'm bulding in vb.net. I don't need to bring the data into my app, just copy it to the windows clipboard.
View 1 RepliesI have got a console application in full screen mode here. But unfortunately the mouse cursor is always there as an annoying white rectangle. Does anybody knowhow to switch it off?I really mean the mouse cursor, not the text cursor. As you probably know, it can be switched off by "Console.CursorVisible = False"
View 4 RepliesI have a .dll file (Interop.ACTMULTILib.dll) that I use to connect to a PLC. This .dll contains a sub called ReadDeviceBlock2(byval devicename as string, byval size as integer, byref data as short). When I call this method in my main it works fine, if I call it from another method that was called by main it works as well.However, it doesn't work when I call it from my Timer_Elapsed sub? I guess this has to do something with threads but I can't figure it out.
Module Main
Private Timer As New System.Timers.Timer
Private PLC As New ACTMULTILib.ActEasyIF
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I did this code to see how the method overriding works;the code runs with a warning in the add method of the Class c2:
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I'm trying to create copy in a menu however i'm having trouble to get it to work as i want it to. I've seen many tutorials online that have 2 textboxes and the code to the copy control is simply TextBox1.Copy() and paste is TextBox2.Paste(). This is fine but what about when you want to copy from TextBox2 to TextBox1 or when you want to copy only part of the highlighted text? Does anyone know what i can use to get it properly working?
View 3 RepliesI have a text box. I need to get extract the highlighted and copy that to another text box. User will highlight it after typing.
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View 3 RepliesCan u do tht with mouse?
sendkeys.send("{ENTER}")
' something like this - mouseclicks.click("{LEFTCLICK}}") idk the real code so...
I'm using a simple interface to write to notepad from a homemade module, but can't seem to get the My.Computer.Keyboard.Sendkeys method to work everytime. When it does work, it works well. When it doesn't, I can't seem to figure out what it's doing. I'm just trying to copy text from a VB module to 'any' other app., in this case I was using Notepad.
View 3 RepliesI have this to show you before i begin:
Dim User As String() = TextBox1.Text.Split("")
Dim Pass As String() = TextBox2.Text.Split("")
Dim CharC As String
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trying to find out what i need to do to use the "sendkeys.sendwait" method in other programs. I found a method using C# but I need a solution for VB. The one I found for C# was this
//using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
[DllImport("User32.dll")]
public static extern Int32 SetForegroundWindow(int hWnd);
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First, I launch a website in Internet Explorer from VB.net and automatically login the user with ther username and password. As soon as the username and password fields are automated, I send "enter" to the website so it goes to the next website. This part works perfectly. However, my problem is that i want to send a mouse click event, which i have already written, to click a hyperlink on the next website page. I tried a few different things, none of which worked. My program is automatically logging in the user and doing the mouse click event at the same time. I have tried to use the "sleep" command, but the mouse click event is still not executing after the second webpage loads. I have tried using nesting "If, then" statements and that has not worked either. Does anyone know how to make sure the webpage fully loads before executing a sendkeys routine or a mouse click event? This is my code thus far:
If (Search.ComboBox1.Text = "IWR") Then
BlockInput(True)'this disables the mouse and keyboard
Dim IE As New Object
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There are no errors, everything is just executing all at once instead of letting the second webpage load and then executing the mouse click event.
I am indifferent if you are a VB.NET or C# or other .NET developer. I have a FACTORY class like the following:
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I have a console application I'm using to run scheduled jobs through windows scheduler. All the communication to/from the application is in email, event logging, database logs. Is there any way I can suppress the console window from coming up?
View 5 Repliesi am trying to get the current mouse coordinates on the console applications that the mouse is moving on. is there a way to find this values. Than possibly how can we turn this values to row col values related to the console window
View 1 RepliesI am currently working on an application, where I am using a console application, that will set up the application prior to the main form is run. This is no problem I've got that all working perfectly, the only problem I have is that the console is showing while the application is running, I was wondering whether anyone knows any way in which I would be able to hide the console before it gets shown to the user.
View 12 RepliesHow do I get the console from closing immediatley upon opening in a Console Application program? I have all of the code written but when I run the program it pops up the console window and then immediatley exits so I am unable to read what is in the window to see if my program is operating correctly. This is the first time I've ever used a console window so I don't know where in the code I would need to put "whatever it is" I might need to put to keep the window open until closed by the user.
View 7 RepliesIt sounds confusing but it's not really. What I need is basically a way to emulate the console style text, without using a console. What I'm really doing is trying to do a matrix effect on my form background, by drawing symbols and moving them, alternating their colors (see this video for what I mean).
Is there a way to do this effectively with a timer and a draw event, with the timer calling the draw event and changing the intervals?
I am writing a console program in vb.net 2010 .net 4.0. Through out the program there are many lines of info. presented to the user in the console window. I was wondering if there is a way to copy all those lines from the code, cause I want to save the text as a log to the operations carried out.
View 3 RepliesI have an WPF full screen application and I configured Skype´s "Focus Skype" Hotkey to Ctrl+F6 combination.
How can I send this message to windows (Ctrl+F6)? I tried by sendkeys but is not working, it says that: SendKeys cannot run inside this application because the application is not handling Windows messages. Either change the application to handle messages, or use the SendKeys.SendWait method."
I tried Sendkeys.sendwait method but it minimized my full screen application and I need it remains full screen.
I've been developing applications in VB 6 for many years. For a long while now I've not been developing and I switched over to Windows 7. Now I've been asked to build a trainer so I moved over to VB.net 2010 and I'm struggling to make the transition. Anyhow I'm stuck with this trainer.I've been asked by many players of an online game to create an application that serves as a trainer for leveling up characters. I've been personally approached by some of the guilds also. This is an MMORPG so instead of running around for hours, the trainer simulates the keyboard key 1 being pressed which is the attack button. So the character attacks monsters automatically until you stop the trainer. In this way you can leave the game running in the background and do other work.This small project has got me really excited in working in vb 2010 and to me it's a small kick start. I haven't done anything like this is Vb6, it was more database orientated and educational game software I was developing. So I'm clueless in this area.
It doesn't really work. If I activate the ingame chatbox it returns 1 and 49 respectively into the text area but doesn't activate the "attack" command even if the chatbox is deactivated. I'm guessing it's not sending the keyboard press event but instead sending a string?
i copied
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the code straight from the source <<< a couple of pages back thataway i'm getting a build error about the users ameappdataloca emporary projectsfile.exe not found.VB Express 2008 on Windows 7. how to output text to different parts of the screen.
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Now as you can see it is sending the textbox1 text and then pressing enter then sending textbox2 text! Theres quite a few problems in that but before i discuss note: This code is in a Timer. Problem #1: It does not send the keys fully correct all the time because its trying to send them all at once! So i want it to send them 1 letter after the other with 200 ms sleep in them! Problem #2: The sleep is not working: The reason i know is because even after it did the first textbox1 text it didnt wait that 2000 ms!
So I have a form with a textbox1 thats supposed to enter in a set of keywords and then ebay will give you the"Instant suggestions" in return, but when I have my textbox1.text send the text over to the ebay form, ebay will not return any suggestions, unless I use the sendkeys.send method. Well, I do not like the sendkeys.send method because it's way too buggy &only works under the right conditions.Here's a pic of google instant and ebay does the same thing. So here's what I'm trying to get ebay to do:Here's the code that I have:
Dim theElementCollection As HtmlElementCollection = WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementsByTagName("input")
For Each curElement As HtmlElement In theElementCollection
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i am facing problem using sendkeys to flash apllication while it works for others like textboxes
View 1 RepliesI cannot find any solutions so far using the MSDN search, so I'll just ask the question here. I am trying to make a "bot" so to speak for a game that I play so that I can automate movements and macros. I've never used Sendkeys method yet until today so I am very unfamiliar except for the articles I have seen on the MSDN.
Basically, the game I play I can manually set macro keys like spacebar to perform task. What I want to do is have my application automate this process on a timed basis. Like, every 2 seconds send the key of spacebar to the other application (MapleStory.exe).
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I am using SendKeys.Send("{HOME}") in a MaskedTextBox to bring the cursor to the beginning of the textbox when the text is empty. When I try to close the project the application freezes if it doesn't have focus. How do I put this application in focus before I call SendKeys? [Code]
View 2 RepliesI am automating 3rd party simulation software. The simulation is contained in a DLL. The DLL is programmed to interface though Excel. (Yes I have tried to use the dll outside of Excel, but other factors don't allow it. I have also asked the author to capture the error and recompile the dll)
VB.NET Application
- Excel.exe
-- Simulation.dll
Sometimes a runtime error occurs in the DLL and a dialgo box is created. "On Resume Next" in excel does not bypass the error, nor can I trap this error in the VB.NET application. Currently, if the simulation does not complete in 5 seconds (the DLL error has been thrown and a dialog box is present), I terminate excel application in the following pseudo code manner:
1) Excel.Quit (quit method of the Excel application object model; does not close excel, no error thrown)
2) FinalReleaseComObject() (for all the object references to Excel, workbooks, ranges, etc) <- a
3) Set all excel references to nothing
4) System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessById(MyClass.procID).Kill()
A RaceOnRCWCleanup is detected (An attempt has been made to free an RCW that is in use. The RCW is in use on the active thread or another thread. Attempting to free an in-use RCW can cause corruption or data loss.) when releasing the Excel application (the other object references do not cause this warning). Is this caused by Excel still being open? I have tried to "find" the error dialog box and close it with some SendKeys, but the an System.InvalidOperationException is thrown: SendKeys cannot run inside this application because the application is not handling Windows messages. Either change the application to handle messages, or use the SendKeys.SendWait method.
I have tried:
1) MyClass.xla.Dialogs.Application.SendKeys("{ESCAPE}")
2) MyClass.xla.Application.SendKeys("{ESCAPE}")
3) MyClass.xla.SendKeys("{ESCAPE}")
4) System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys.Send("{ESCAPE}")
5) My.Computer.Keyboard.SendKeys("{ESCAPE}", True)
6) sending keystrokes to buffer: [URL]
7) Creating a VBS file to send the escape character (doesn't work becuase of the path lenght)
This is what I know about the dialog box from Spy++:
Caption: run-time error
Class Name: #32770 (Dialog)
This program will be running un-attended so I want all debug errors and messages accounted for in code before this goes into production.
What is the difference between SendKeys.SendWait and SendKeys.Send?Send obviously will just send they key immediately, but does SendWait actually wait for the message to be processed or does it also send it immediately?The function's name itself is just confusing. Which one should I use if I want to send keystrokes to a 3rd party app immediately, or is there no difference? To me, a few milliseconds is a big difference.
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