how 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?
View 23 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 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
It detects the color fine and the picture background changes to the color my mouse is pointing at, but when it changes to one of the colors its ment to send me a msg it doesn't..[code]
View 2 RepliesIt detects the color fine and the picture background changes to the color my mouse is pointing at, but when it changes to one of the colors its ment to send me a msg it doesn't
Public Class Form1
Dim color As Integer
Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles
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Dim 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?
How to send keystrokes in v.net automatically ..
View 1 RepliesHow 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 Repliesi 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?)
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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'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 RepliesI am looking for some tip on how to send keystroke of a mouse button click. Basically my requirement is when a list box is dropped it shows a datagrid, right now user has to click 2 times to get focus on datagrid, although i send a focus on datagrid when list is dropped from dropdown event still the focus stays on list box, i have to click 1 time to release focus from listbox then click on datagrid to set focus. I like to automate this 2 clicks with a keystroke. I dont see any mouse button click keystrokes.
View 4 RepliesI 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 have tried appactivate and by getting the process name and window title and nothing works. Nothing I try will send keys to the application.
View 1 RepliesThere is 2 things that i need.
1-Know how to send a key to a specific background app(don't loosing the focus of the actual window). Is there a function or API to do that?
2-Warcraft III have a protection tool and its almost impossible to use any function or API to interact with it.
I have a website that has 20,000+ members and i want to send each member a personalized admin update emails.I am currently sending about 200 emails at a time. To send to all the members, it takes me a few hours to complete.This is what I am trying to figure out how to implement.How can i possible build a webservice or something to send all these emails in the backgound at set intervales or something so I don't have to sit and click a button each time to send the emails out?I have seen many opt-in email list sites that when sending email, you get a page that the email was sent to the queue, and i receive an email back when the sending of all the emails is completed. This is something that i want to implement.
View 2 RepliesI have all the handle capturing and gui set up. I'm stumped as to how to perform the actual step.
I have this code:
SendMessage(New IntPtr(CurrentHandle), WHAT,GOES,HERE?)
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However, none of these are giving much of the "code example" method that I need to learn how to do it. I just need to send key events such as pressing "/" or "w", etc. No, I can't use sendkeys for this.
Final step in my application. I finally got all the requirements working, but now I need to have the application run in the background.
The application was written in Visual Studio 2010 VB, Win form app.
The requirements are as follows:
1.) run the application at start up
2.) no icon
3.) always in focas
4.) always runs in the background.
Here's the full code I have right now (working! whahoooo)
Public Class Form1
Private Property count As Integer
Private s As New Stopwatch
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is it possible to make one application send a task to another application and recieve the result from that secondary app?i made a text editor program and i added a scan feature and i made another app that has ocr capabilities.The scanner ability is in my text editor program, the ocr program doesnt scan you have to input an image into it and it will give text result a few seconds later.the prob is alot of times the ocr code uses sooo much memory and crashes when its incorporated with my text editor, but individually each application works fine and doesnt take too much memory. Memory wont be even an issue if the ocr program is standalone so that when it is done decoding image the application can be made to exit. now here is the question, how do i make my text editor send the image to the ocr program and how do i make my ocr program send the text back to my text editor? is it possible? i mean the only way i know off is creating temp files in a certain folder and having a timer on each program that keeps waiting for temp files. That just seems like pretty lame coding to me i was wondering if there's a better way?
View 11 RepliesI need to send a short string, (less than 30 bytes, but sent every second), from one VB application, to a Delphi application.. is this possible, using CopyDataStruct, WM_COPYDATA and SendMessage functions in Windows?
View 1 RepliesI have already asked about the problem in java forum.Now i think the solution is only possible through microsoft products.Problem is i want to get the handle of a application and send commands to that application.Is it possible commands are send to combo box , text area, buttons etc..
View 2 RepliesI am trying to call a .exe from a VB.net application. I did this using:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(" my file name.exe"),
This works but its UI also appears in the screen .Is there a way by which I can start the process and not let the user see it ,i.e to say can we call a .exe in the background?
I am trying to call a .exe from a VB.net application. I did this using ystem.Diagnostics.Process.Start(" my file name.exe"),this works but its UI also appears in the screen .Is there a way by which I can start the process as well do not let the user see it ,i.e to say can we call a .exe in the backdround?
View 5 Repliesi have prepared an application which dose not take any user input and the aim of the application is to take screenshots at a regular interval of 5 min i am using vb.net 2005 for this i have taken a form and in that form i have placed a timer control and in timer trick i am calling the function which takes the screen shot my requirement is to set up this application and this should run in the back ground and the user should not be able to cancel or stop the running of the application how to do this the application should run in the background it self and this should start when ever the system boots?
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