i am making an app for my media server, but now i ran into a little problem. Once i press pause on my app, i want it to pause my VLC player. One way is to press Space bar in VLC. Is there any way to send the Space bar key to VLC? (or is this not possible in VB.net, If not: witch coding language should i use?)
View 1 RepliesDim NotePadProcess As Process = New Process()
NotePadProcess .StartInfo.FileName = "notepad"
NotePadProcess .StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Normal
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I am trying to send some keys to a program that I launched, but every time i send the keys focus is not on the program and the keys are sent to the wrong program. Is there a better way to send keys to a program or a way to set focus on a certain program?
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View 1 RepliesI am using visual basic code, specifically the sendkeys.send method, to send keystrokes to a different application, in my case Acrobat Reader. Here is my problem. I am sending instructions and text to define a path to a file I want to open in Acrobat Reader. Every keystroke is being sent and interpreted in Reader correctly except the Colon. This is the line of code I am using:Sendkeys.send("C:")
I have tried every variation of this simple line of code I can think of, but the result is the same. Reader for some reason wants to interpret the Colon as Uppercase Q, so what I get is CQ. This of course totally messes up my path to the file I want to open.Sendkeys. sendwait("C:") Behaves the same
I understand there are timing issus with this method so I have added code to my app.config file suggested in this forum for taking care of the timing issue. I have also inserted delays into the execution of the program steps. Nothing I have done solves this problem.I wonder if anyone else has experienced this or a similar problem and if so what was done to correct it.
How do I make the form send keystrokes such as Tab, Enter, Left Arrow etc to itself without interfering with other programs? If I use the SendKeys.Send method, it would send it to whatever window is opened. Is there a way to only work with the form? Very quick random example: Let's say I have 5 textBoxs and I click the 'Tab' button 5 times. What would happen ?
It would change the focus from one textbox to another right? Can I make this happen automatically ... like make it happen in the background and only to the form itself. So If I'm typing something on Notepad, I don't want to receive those 5 tabs. By the way I know I can use this code to change the fofucs, but remember its only an example.
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In Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition, how would I send keystrokes to a specific window. Right now, I just keep the window I want on top and use sendkeys.send("{enter}"). The window that I want to send keystrokes to is my applications window.
View 13 RepliesI am trying to send a ctrl-x keystroke to COM2 and I ahve to code to open the port and read and write but when I tried to send Chr(Keys.ControlKey + Keys.X) it did not work
View 1 RepliesI cannot seem to wrap my head around the SendMessage function/method. What I am trying to do is send keystrokes to an instance of webbrowser1 within my vb.net application. Can someone give me a decent example of the code I would need to create to process this using the keystrokes below.
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I'm trying to send the keys "ABC" and "Enter" to Notepad when I press a button. I've been reading forever on Hooks, "SendKeys" functions, but I can't figure it out. I don't think I need to use a hook, because I'm not making a hotkey or anything, I'm just pressing a button and sending the keystrokes to a window when it's not focused.
View 7 Replieshow to send keystrokes to an application that does not have focus and is not selected. i have read about sendmessage, but am not sure how to use it or anything, not even sure if its what i need.i dont need to send anything but normal character keystrokes?im using VS 2008?
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i'm trying to build a application for my buddy who plays online games and has asked for a simple program to click the mouse button within his game that he plays for a certain amount of time with a certain duration between. my questions comes ( and i searched but didnt find much useful information for .net framework anyway) about how to detect a combination of keystrokes to start an action and further more to send a click event to the game that should be main focus. i'd also appreciate any tutorials on sending information to other forms controls etc.
thank you for any help
I wrote program that will send keystrokes to a computer if a button is pressed. The button is wired to a db9 connector and plugged into the pc. The program works, except I can not figure out how to detect if the cable gets unplugged. I am monitoring the CD pin change event to send keystrokes, but if the cable is not plugged in then I need it to send a messagebox.
View 8 RepliesI know how to send mouse clicks and keystrokes into an application when it is open and active, but this particular application the task is very repetitive and can be done with a script of sorts. What i want is how do i make a program to be able to send inputs (key clicks) into the application when it is minimized (the application minimized that is). doing this minimized would then allow me to do other more important things whilst the vb program is sending instructions into the other app.[code]...
View 24 RepliesI've got a curious problem that I can't crack. I have 2 applications, app A and app B. Application A runs continuously doing various things. On the same machine I have application B that runs infrequently at random. I need for application B to tell application A to do something. Both are vb.net apps that I've written and can tweak to make this work. I can't figure out how to get app B to communicate with app A while app A is already running?
View 4 Replies) I am trying to send a short text from a VB app to Delphi app.. here is the VB Code: Sender Program "Sender"
Public Class SendData
Const WM_COPYDATA = &H4A
Public Structure CopyDataStruct
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It is possible to send strings from VB to Delphi programs using WM_COPYDATA command, and SendMessage function?
Just wondering what is the simplest way to send data between ALL instances of my app on the SAME windows login on a single machine - I do not want to use anything that opens a port as i don't want there to be any chance of having it blocked by a firewall
View 3 RepliesI need to be able to send keycode keys.apps (windows context menu key) to an application. Surely if I can detect the keypress, there's a way to send the keypress, right?
What I'm doing is having a 3rd party app save a screenshot and the only way to have it do so is through its right click context menu.
I am working on a project that is used for key broadcasting. Don't worry nothing illegal, I'm making a multibox application for world of warcraft. However I am having trouble when it comes to launching and manipulating other applications from another.
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I am creating a VB 2010 program that lets your select the program(s) you want to install (chkbox) and hit run. Then have it launch the installer ( the file is across the server) and accept the predefined keystrokes to proceed through the installation process. Afterwards, it starts the next install. Below is the code that I have. What i cant get to function is the unit accepting the keystrokes, its almost as if it wont take focus ( even when i have used Appactivate and threading.thread.sleep). I have even gone so far as to identify it as a process to manipulate the thread. To be honest, i'm at a loss and need any help at all. The final sub that contains "btntest" is where I am at currently in my attempts. [Code]
View 26 RepliesI had a user ask me today if I could make it so they could simply drag and drop text from other programs into the app I've written. I found an old (2002 & 2003) article on drag and drop, but I'm sure things have been made better since then.
Anyone doing this today can point me in the right direction? Is this much of a pain to enable?
is there as simple way to pass data between 2 apps? it seems DDE support this, but vb.net 2010 seems not support DDE anymore. in my program, I need launch another exe, then wait the exe finish, and get the export data.
both apps are in the same solution. one method I can think of is: writing the data into a xml file, then load it from the main exe when the second exe is done.is there an easier way to do this?
I'm finishing up an app for work that will work hand in hand with another app.
What I'd really like to do, is setup a method to add a button to the other apps border. So all they have to do is click that button when in that other app, do their business and move on.
Now, if I hadn't seen it before, I most certainly would've thought that this wouldn't be possible. But I've seen TeamViewer do it.
In that image, TeamViewer created a two-way arrow button and when clicked, displays a small panel of some sort with additional options.
I'm 99.99% sure I'll have to use Windows APIs, but I'm not sure where to begin.
How do i start a Game or an other application in a Panel??
View 2 Replies what WPF based apps are?Is it an application that runs under Silverlight? If so, how?I know; Windows Forms based apps,console apps,DLL _ Class Library Projectsand I've had an introduction to ASP.Net.What I mostly want to know is, if WPF apps are for Silverlight then do they also run in a server based fashion like anASP.NET website would when you create ASP.Net webpages?Is it a way of creating what looks like a FORMS BASED application but it runs in a browser instead or what?Please enlighten me a bit further as I have no idea what WPF is all about.
I am fairly novice hobbyist developer. I am developing a simple calculator app. How can I detect the keystrokes, like when the user presses "1" key on numpad or they "1" key above Q key? I want to call the same subroutine that runs when the user click on the butten control "a "on calculator's main form.
View 9 RepliesI'm trying to create an application similar to the site WhatPulse, which will generate an image with my clicks and keystrokes. WhatPulse only updates the image once every 24 hours, so I am going to make an application to keep track of that for me, only with realtime stats.
How can I count total keystrokes (outside of the application itself) as well as total clicks, in vb.net?
I am facing a problem in my code. I am working on an application in vb.net, its a windows based application. On one of my form I need to perform so many data driven operations.
if I press tab on one of the text box, I need to set a computed value in other text box and need to set the focus to that text box.
I write a code that is a like to this.
Private Sub TextBox1_KeyUp(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.KeyUp
Select Case e.KeyCode
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I'm trying to do some interface for a game for people with mobility probs, like Parkinson, so grouping several game features in just one control.Everything goes fine but having problems sending keystrokes to the game window when they have modifiers.Lets say I want to send Alt+F1 keys, according all the search I have done, the code is:My.Computer.Keyboard.SendKeys("%{F1}")but it does just like I sent an F1 Keystroke: My.Computer.Keyboard.SendKeys("{F1}").I need to send Function Keys alone and too with Alt and Ctrl modifiers, but not success with modifiers, the game only gets like an alone function Key was pressed.
View 18 RepliesMy form contains a Button and a Flash Control. The Flash Control contains a game referenced to a website. I want to send keystrokes into that control (the game) without having to be in focus. I'm not experienced in flash so when I decompiled the game, I had no idea how to script a way for it to work programatically.
View 2 RepliesDoes someone knows how to read multiple arrow keystrokes at the same time.Like when I have up + left so it should do something like diagonal up-left?
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