I am Automating IBM iSeries Emulators using VB.net, created GUI that embeds the external iSeries Emulator Window in a WindowsForm Panel using the "SetParent" API .. To communicate with the iSeries Window I use the SendMessage API to send Key's to the Screen. I am aware of the sendkeys.keys in .net, but this way I dont have to SetForegroundWindow and reactivate my Form.
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I have read numerous postings but this is my first contribution. I am trying to use Sendmessage to send a string of text from one application to another. I have created a sandbox to work out the details. I have used the Notepad example and I have gotten that to function. This is what I have that works.
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Can someone give me an example of how to use SendMessage to send text?
I found some code on Google but I cant get it to work
Private Declare Function apiSendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hWnd As Int32, ByVal wMsg As Int32, ByVal wParam As Int32, ByVal lParam As String) As Boolean
Declare Auto Function SendMessage Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, ByVal msg As Integer, ByVal
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) 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?
give me a link to an Example on SendMessage/PostMessage? (I want to use SendMessage/PostMessage to send Strings)
View 6 Replies provide me with an example of SendMessage API to do the following.
1) I have a form with a button to execute c:windowssystem3diskpart.exe.
2) After diskpart executes hidden, I want to send "list disks" follow by an "Enter"
Dim MyProcess As New Process()
btnMakeFlashDisk.Enabled = False
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When accessing the winapi method CloseHandle() via .net P/Invoke, should the argument be IntPtr or HandleRef, and why?
View 2 RepliesI want to wait for and close a modal form (a popup) from another application, as soon as it appears. I want to do this from VB.NET, but suggestions in C# should be easily translateable.
I can hard-code the modal popup's caption in my app, since it's long and unique. What I want to do is simulate either the user clicking on the close ("X") button on the form, or a click on the defeault, tab-order 0 button of the form. Either would work.
Maybe I need more info about the modal popup other than the title bar's caption? In any case, it's safe to use it as an unique identifier of that modal form. I also want that code to terminate checking as soon as the first event of closing the popup happens.
I believe it's trivial, but I can't find any ready info on that. Microsoft says I should not send WM_CLOSE to the modal popup, since it will call DestroyWindow() instead of EndDialog(), but to be honest I don't even know what "sending WM_CLOSE" to the "window" means =/
I have been trying to build a game bot in vb.net.One of the main problems is getting access to the text the game prints on the screen so I have been trying to hook the games calls to the windows api drawtext and textout functions.I have been hunting for examples of how to set up a hook in vb.net for a long time without any luck.I have found it impossible to translate examples in old school vb, C++, and C#.For convenience's sake I would like to use the freely available deviare and/or easyhook libraries.
View 2 RepliesI have written some C/C++ code that uses the winapi functions CreateFile WriteFile SetFilePointer etc. to read & write some large (>4 GB) binary files. Some colleagues who are more familier with Visual basic than C, want to modify some of their existing code to call my C code functions.
I have turned my code into DLLs that I have successfully called from other C programs. I have also created a small C DLL that doesn't use the winapi functions & called it from a small VB program.
What I haven't so far been unable to do is pass the HANDLE type variable between a C function that uses the winapi functions & the VB program that call it so the VB can call another of my functions & pass the HANDLE.
In my attempt to do this, the declarations in the header file for two of the functions in the C DLL are:
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When I step through the VB code in debug mode there is no problem with calling OpenSegyRW, but at WriteToSegy I get the error message:System.Runtime.InteropServices.MarshalDirectiveException was unhandled
Message=PInvoke restriction: cannot return variants.So what am I doing wrong & is there any way to pass the winapi HANDLE type between VB & C code? BTW indents etc. get lost when I paste my message into the forum. I hope this is decipherable.
I want to make a function to record the sound and then to play the record,like the telephone. I have ever download some articles,but they were all too complex,or they have too many unassociate code,so I can not understand the courses of the recording and playing.I want to get some code here?
View 2 RepliesI have a timer in winforms that looks for a specific OK dialog on my server (it clicks OK on a third party application that runs out of memory, then restarts it -- there is no other work around). So, when I remote desktop the server and the remote desktop window is active (the actual remote desktop window is active, not the actual window that has the OK that has to be clicked. I can have a window that has nothing to do with the OK, and it works), the program works as it should. It finds the window of the OK, then clicks the OK button fine. When I am not in remote destop, or when the remote desktop window is not active (or selecte) it finds the window and finds the OK button, but cannot click the OK button.
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Whats wrong with this code? There is no error. But nothing happens when exicuted.
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View 8 RepliesI'm trying to send some words to an application I'm running (exe file, no webpage). To do this I run my vb program and minimize it, so that the application I want to send the words to have focus.Now I've tried sendkeys, but it seems sendkeys only sends my first word and does nothing with the other words. The code below is called 4 times by the main form
If i > 3 Then i = 0
i = i + 1
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but this throws in a overflowexception was unhandled error at the apiSendMessage(hWnd, WM_SETTEXT, 0, "Hello") line.I've tried several things but I can't figure it out how to send multiple words to the application without problems .
I am using SendMessageTimeout to send messages (IPC) to talk between applications ... works fine in vb... but i am trying to build a vb.net implementation to talk between existing vb6 apps and .net ones...
So far i can successfully send data from vb.net to vb6 using:
vb
Dim b = System.Text.UnicodeEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(Command)
Dim Data As New COPYDATASTRUCT
Data.dwData = New IntPtr
Data.cdData = UBound(b) + 1
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I would like to get the x, y position from the Params when the WM_LBUTTONDOWN is sent in vb.net.I got this to make the param but how do I get the position from it.
IntPtr lParam = (IntPtr)((y << 16) | x);
My function:
Protected Overrides Sub WndProc(ByRef m As Message)
Select Case m.Msg
Case WM_LBUTTONDOWN
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Update: I just tried this and it works perfectly.
Dim pos As New System.Drawing.Point(CInt(m.LParam))
Private Const WM_KEYDOWN = &H100
Private Const WM_KEYUP = &H101
Private Const VK_BACKSPACE = &H8
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I have this code:
Private Const MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN = &H2
Private Const MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP = &H4
Dim WindowHandle As Long = FindWindow(vbNullString, "Ultima Online")
SendMessage(WindowHandle, MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTDOWN, 0, 0)
SendMessage(WindowHandle, MOUSEEVENTF_LEFTUP, 0, 0)
I know it is getting the windowhandle fine, because I made a conditional statment that pops up a messagebox if windowhandle = 0 The problem is that it is not sending the mouse click to the window.
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Damned. Is there a managed code somewhere in vb.net where mortals can simulate key presses?
Is there an e-book or book somewhere about it?
I am trying to write a small plugin for eventghost for one of my software (audio player). EventGhost can send SendMessage or PostMessage messages to control other apps. How can I receive such messages in a VB.NET app?
View 1 RepliesIve been trying to figure out how to sendmessage VK_Space. i found an example and just tried it how it was, but i always get an error.My code
Public Class Form1
Private Declare Function PostMessage Lib "user32" Alias "PostMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As IntPtr, ByVal wMsg As IntPtr, ByVal wParam As Long, ByVal lParam As IntPtr) As IntPtr
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bear in mind i am pretty new to thisnow "Ultima Online" is the title of the window/game im trying to send a simple mouseclick to..
View 2 RepliesI use keybd_event and mouse_event to simulate keypresses. I want taht to still work when the user is switch (Xp supports several users as we know).
Well, it doesn't.
I've heard sendmessage is more reliable,.
I manage to simulate click easily.
SimulateClick2 = SendMessage(hwnd, BM_CLICK, 0, 0)
Now, how to do so to simulate keypresses?
Can anyone give me a SendMessage/PostMessage Example? I want to make SendMessage/PostMessage work like SendKeys, except instead of sending keys to the app in focus, it will send keys to a certain app. I've looked at a lot of examples that use notepad, but they all need to use "find" the "EDIT" thing. I dont want that. Is there any other way?
View 3 RepliesI can't seem to get my program to send anything to this text box. I am able to receive the handles of each object, but never able to send to it.
Here is my code.
vb.net
Public Const WM_SETTEXT = &HC
Public Const WM_KEYDOWN = &H100
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It wont even set focus.I have the right amount of tiers ... perhaps im in need of the use of GetControl?
I developed a little app which uses SendMessage function to turn off monitor. My friend asked me whether using the app regularly will harm his monitor. He had some issues with his mother board when he used a similar app. Is there any harm (for hardware) in using the function to do things like these?
View 1 RepliesI am launching an external that brings up a window that is split into two frames. I am able to get the handle of the frame and what I want to do is click inside the frame in a certain area.
For example, if I open "System Information" by launching msinfo32.exe, how would I click on Internet Settings in the left window pane? I don't need the exact coordinates, just an explanation of how it can be done using SendMessage or PostMessage.
I've tried things like:
PostMessage(sideWnd, WM_LBUTTONDOWN, 200, 1200)
PostMessage(sideWnd, WM_LBUTTONUP, 200, 1200)
I wasn't sure if the end two numbers would be coordinates, but if they are, I've tried different numbers and can't seem to get it to click anything other than the first item in the list of the left window frame.
I need an API for sendmessage and sendmessagetimeout for my VB .net application. I have searched quite a bit, and everything I find doesn't seem to work: either the message just doesnt seem to be sent, or the message appears to be sent with the msg parameter always 0, and the wparam setting as what I enter for the msg setting. Pinvoke's also always seems to throw an AccessViolationException for I have no idea what reason. I tried playing around with maybe just where I put the variable, but unsurprisingly, there is not a simple logical switch of the variables.I have tried pinvoke's:
<DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError:=True)> _
Public Shared Function SendMessageTimeout(ByVal windowHandle As IntPtr, ByVal Msg As Integer, ByVal wParam As IntPtr, ByVal lParam As IntPtr, ByVal flags As
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I am currently writing a program that must extract data from the screen of another application. This application is a client side database interface. When the client retrieves data from the database it is displayed on this form. I am currently using.
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