I play Lord of the Rings Online and tried to use sendkeys to send some basic automation commands.Unfortunately it doesn't seem to get the keys I'm sending
AppActivate "Lord of the Rings: The Mines of Moria"
sendKeys (" ")
does nothing.
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I am trying to just write something to a cell in a sheet and I am getting the error message:
Exception Exception from HRESULT: 0x800A03EC Stack Trace: at System.RuntimeType.ForwardCallToInvokeMember(String memberName, BindingFlags flags, Object target, Int32[] aWrapperTypes, MessageData& msgData)
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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.
View 3 RepliesHow do I use Excel Automation in VB.NET? Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help. Welcome to the All-In-One Code Framework!
View 1 RepliesThe software company I work for offers data conversion as a service for new clients who have previously used other similar software. I've written a VB.NET application to automate common conversion operations, and have separate logic between known vendors.particular file layout has become rather common, but due to the nature of how this particular competitor's application stores information, certain fields mean one thing for one client, and another for a different client.Certain elements within this vendor's format change every time, so I've written the application to account for that. Because some data fields mean different things to different vendors, I have to change my mapping code every time. This wasn't an issue when I had one of these every six months or so, but these are becoming much more common and I would much rather find a way to further automate this process.
View 2 RepliesIs it possible to read an excel range when option strict is on?my test code works with Option Strict Off but 'Disallows implicit conversions from Object to 2 dimensional array of object' when Option strict is on!Is it possible to load a typed array from the object without looping round all of the elements? [code]
View 4 RepliesI am trying to automate this website but my application does not find the username, password textboxes or the button. this might be an iframe in the website, I don't know
what I am trying to do is:
find the username
pop it in
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How do we automate the process of deriving an Interface from our already-designed class?In other words, I wrote in completion my entire class and now desire to automatically construct its interface. EG: Say my class's filename is "Car.vb", I now desire "ICar.vb" derived from the class "Car" that I've written.
View 9 Repliesthe create object command is not responondingi try createobject("Excel.Application") or ("Word.Application") but nothing happen.i have office 2007 i have added the references Microsoft Excel 12.0 object library and Microsoft Word 12.0 object library. I have added Imports Microsoft.Office.Intercop
View 1 RepliesI'm writing VB code in Visual Basic 2008 Express and can't seem to figure out how to create a new instance of Excel with VB code. The most common answer appears to be setting an object variable to 'Excel.Application', but that gives an error (Type 'Excel.Application' is not defined).
View 1 RepliesThis seems like is should be simple but for the life of me I can't seem to get it. I am using VB.net.I am importing a text file into Excel. Then I want to select everything and sort it based on a cell (A) in this case. So here is what I have so far.
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xlApp.Workbooks.OpenText(sDump, , 1, , XlTextQualifier.xlTextQualifierDoubleQuote, , , , True)
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I have a VB 2008 Forms application which does Powerpoint automation -- I am opening owerpoint in a minimized window from within my app and am trying to periodically put update messages in a textbox on my main form while the automation is running (it takes a few minutes to complete), but my form window does not want to show these messages until the powerpoint operations are finished. It seems as if I need to force a window refresh or something on my windows form, but I'm unclear how to do that. Below is some code that I'm using that illustrates what I'm trying to do. When I run it, "Step One / Step Two / Step Three" do not show up on my textbox until after the Powerpoint automations are over.
View 3 RepliesI created a simple VB 6 executable that runs fine on my computer (Windows 7), but when I deploy it to another Windows 7 PC or a Windows 2003 server, I get the error"Runtime Error 430: Class does not support Automation or does not support expected interface"
View 12 RepliesI have an application that opens and saves spreadsheet via interop.At start up I set
Code:
_excelApp.Visible = false;
_excelApp.DisplayAlerts = false;
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I want to use VB .Net to remove a table from an EXISTINGpowerpoint Slide Shape and replace it with a chart withoutdeleting the shape or adding a new shape. Presently using
Copy() and Paste() to place Chart in new Shape.
I dont know why its giving me an error when i run this code...
Code:
Dim xlApp As Excel.Application
Dim xlWorkBook As Excel.Workbook
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I am having tremendous difficulty getting word automation to insert a page break in my document. The app is generating letters in word and saving them....the code below shows where I am writing the first page (str.tostring) then all of the code after that are the various ways that I have tried to insert a page break so that it will go to the second page and I can unload information into the second page of the document. [code]
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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!
I am trying to send keys to a control on my form. But I am getting a NullReferenceException and I don't know why. The code is about as basic as it gets: [Code] The error reported is object reference not set to an instance of an object but Send is a shared method so doesn't need an instance. Strangely if I ignore the error it works fine and F4 is passed to the control. I know there was an issue with sendkeys and UAC but I thought this had been solved (I am using 4.0 framework).
View 1 RepliesI'm making an auto-typer and I need it to only send one line of a multi-lined textbox at a time. It looks like this right now;
If Label1.Text = "1" Then
SendKeys.Send(TextBox2.Text)
SendKeys.Send("{Enter}")
Thread.Sleep(TextBox13.Text)
Timer2.Enabled = False
End If
I want the Textbox2.text to be entered one line at a time and then to sleep for the desired time.
How can I have a time out between every key I send ?
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I don't want to use the sleep method, or to put each code under a timer ... Anything else that I could use?
i tried to code sendkeys.send(textbox1.text)but what it did was just pressing down the letter.i wanted to write Shift in textbox and press a button and it will press shift and not S-h-i-f-t
View 8 RepliesI want to auto press Page Up and Home.I use SendKeys but I don't know how to repeat that until I click the stop button. I basically need to know how to keep doing commands until clicking on a stop button (like auto press).
View 3 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?
I'm making an auto typer that has multiple textboxes from different forms to send and it looks like this[code]...
View 4 RepliesCan u do tht with mouse?
sendkeys.send("{ENTER}")
' something like this - mouseclicks.click("{LEFTCLICK}}") idk the real code so...
I 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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im pretty new to Visual basic, but im trying to make a auto pinger for i can keep seeing if server's are lagging or if its me, so I'm wondering how would i go about making SendKeys.Send send to command prompt:
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This is my first post of your forum, and I'm very excited to see what there is to learn in here :-) But first i have a problem with auto program for a java chat. I want it to select the window by it self, and send the keys of a textbox, this is what i got so far:
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I'm using the function sendkeys.send(). I'm using it in a cell of a grid because everytime I write a letter, I deactivate an activate the control, and when this happens the whole text is selected, and I want the cursor to be placed at the end of the text. In order to to this, I use: SendKeys.Send("{end}") It usually works fine, but when I'm pressing the shift key to write capital letters, it doesn't work. I've tried to send other keys with that function while pressing the shift key. If i use
SendKeys.Send("a")
I get an A, like when I use
SendKeys.Send("A")
Should I disable the keyboard input before using the sendkeys instruction, and how should I do it?