I'm sending keystrokes to in inactive window. And I got that all good.
But now on my program there is a textbox pass, and I want to get that text, and send it threw postmessage. But It doesn't seem to work.
Dim pass As String
pass = textbox1.text
PostMessage(windowHandle, WM_KEYDOWN, pass, 0)
im a complet noob in vb . i have been trying to figure out how to send keystrokes back to my own application , while minimized/ Or focused on an other window.i think i need to use PostMessageA . i read about it on forums. But its like chinese for me.my goal is to run these little programs by the 100's on 1 pc. and they just press a key in their own application , over and over.i was thinking something like this
Private Declare Function PostMessage Lib "user32.dll" Alias "PostMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, ByVal wParam As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Long
Private Const WM_CHAR As Long = &H102
PostMessage("notepad", WM_CHAR, "T", 1)
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 RepliesI did like to make a management app for a directx game, however postmessage sendmessage and sendkeys do not work...
it's for skyrim, not an online game.
how to send a key to is? have been searching for hours now and couldnt find anything besides people that say they used directinput but leave no resources or examples...
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That application can do it... Weird that he's using Sendkeys because it doesn't work in visualbasic
I need to send keystrokes using my InfraRed port on my laptop. As simple as a TV remote control. -being able to send numbers: 1 .. 2 .. and left right etc ... How to access the IrDA port?
View 1 RepliesI 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 RepliesI want to be able to make an internet window (its a java game in a popup) that are "active" or even "inactive" all time.In example: I'm opening a MSN chat window, in the game a symbole next to my name changes to "ZZ", what i want to do is to make this "ZZ" won't appear
View 24 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'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 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 RepliesWhenever I enter text, even a single character, into a textbox in any Form in my application it causes the form and its parent to close. I've checked for the following so far:
Errant/mis-assigned event handlers that may be interpreting a keystroke as a Form cancel I am using keypreview in several windows but debugging shows this to not be a cause Happens in any form of the application Happens even with brand new text boxes dropped on the form Tried removing the WithEvents declaration from text box declarations (VB.NET)
I don't know where to start so i will explain my project. I want (someday) to make a macro scripting program kinda like SCAR. The difference will be that it will simulate all the function/procedures from scar. What i mean by simulate is that you can "Mouse Click" without actually moving or affecting the "real" mouse. This will allow you to macro and do what ever you do on the computer at the same time.
View 4 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.
I don't really use VB.NET much if not at all, but slowly will change from vb6. [Code] That works fine, apart from when the e-mail is being sent a new window opens for less than a second sometimes (new task) which flashes which is quite annoying. Anyone have any ideas to hide that window flash when sending an e-mail?
View 2 RepliesWhat i need to do is, I need to send the value of "e.enrollNo " to any active windows cursor point(to the Insertion Pointer).
Sub
BioBridgeSDK_OnAttTransactionEx(ByVal
sender As[code].....
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.
I am new to VB.net, i did a course in it about 5 years ago, and could do simple programs, but lost most of my knowledge, because i have not used it in such a long time, now i want to do something and cant seem to get it right, i have this game that i a play online, and i have a few accounts for it, so i would like to make a account logger, wher the usernames and passwords will be saved in a text file, and then i just open the vb program, select the username and the vb program will automatically set focus to the game window (which is windowed, not full screen).
Problem is just, the game client has 4 buttons, New Account, Play Game, About and Credits, i want to get a way for the VB program to set focus to the program(bring it to front, and then move the mouse to the coordinates of the play game button, goto coordinates of the username text box, click and write the username, same for password and then move to login button coordinates and click logon, wait a sec or two and move to either character 1, 2, 3's login button and click)
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I've done it before, so I'm getting a little frustrated on how to get this to work exactly I need to send some arguments to a command line window and I thought I did it this way:
VB.NET
Dim p As New Process
p.StartInfo.FileName = "cmd"
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I want a quick and easy way of sending stuff from my window forms to my remote SQL server, my remote sql server allows remote connections to my IP address. How can I do this? I also need to return a result, either true of false.
View 6 RepliesIs there is any option to send a message to a window to "press" on the maximize button? I thought using the sendmessage API but I don't really know how, I alreday got the window handle, the problem is how to send the message?
View 2 RepliesHow can I make inactive textboxes / Richtextboxes autoscroll? I have Multiple richtextboxes that are constantly being appended with data automatically and at the moment only the one that is active scrolls and all the others stop when the fill up. How can i get round this?
View 3 RepliesI am having trouble creating inactive users in VB. I watched the tutorial [URL]but it is for C# and the code behind won't work in VB. I need the users to be inactive when they register and send the administrator an email saying someone has registered to be approved.
View 3 Replieshow I would make hotkeys e.g "ctrl + 1" to do an action even when the application ism't the active window.
for example I am working on photoshop and then i press ctrl + 1 and my app appears in front of it.
or if I press "ctrl+2" a new window will open.
I need this to also work when the application is hidden and in the system tray as well as when application is visible
I am working on a bitmap class module in Visual Basic 2010 that has an option to create a graphic grid on the bitmap.
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I am making a "fake Operating System" or "Virtual Machine" or what ever you want to call it. It has all of its own programs. I want Windows XP to stop running so that it will go faster and so on.Okay so I will obviously need coding on the Form1_Load and Form1_FormClosing Subs.Here is my attempt at coding it (Note that this is just the attempt at coding this particular part. It is not necessary to give you everything cause it would be to much and it might confuse people) :
Private Sub Form1_FormClosing(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.FormClosingEventArgs) Handles Me.FormClosing
System(My.Computer.FileSystem.Drives.Join)
End Sub
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imagine following situation 2 forms, one form with some buttons and another form with a RichTextBox on it, if i click on the buttons the text in the RTB changes. Now i want to mark some words in the RTB with the mouse. The form with the buttons is the active form, if i click in the RTB and try to mark something, the form gets focus and comes to the front but if i move the mouse nothing happens. I have to perform a second click at first to mark something.I already tried a lot of things like setting focus to the form if the MouseButtonDown event fires, but all of that doesn't work. The only possibility that works if i set focus to the form when ever the mouse moves over the form, but this is annoying, cause everytime i move the mouse on the form the form pops to the front.How can i manage to mark the text with one simple click? Applications like OpenOffice or Notepad++ are able to do this as well.
View 1 RepliesMy toolbox was working previously & now is inactive for every program I pull up, old, new, and samples.
View 2 RepliesI am trying to see find out if a user has been inactive for a certain amount of time by mouse and keyboard events. I want to be able to find this from windows not my form. I am lost as to where to start. I came across this "GetLastInputInfo Function" but am not sure if that is right and/or how to use it.
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