Send key Press Visual Basic 2008 (dot .net)?

Question

Im trying to send an "enter" key to another application in visual basic 2008.

The problem im having, is the application im sending to requires a "keydown" type of event, rather than just a keypress (by use of "SendKeys") if anyone can help it will be brilliant, thanks.

Answer 1

I suggest you start learning the SendMessage function.

You can easily use sendmessage to send the windows message WM_KEYDOWN to an application. Here's an example code



SendMessage(WINDOW HANDLE HERE, WM_KEYDOWN, VK_RETURN, 0);

Answer 2

Its actually: If e.KeyChar = "13" Then End If The keychar code must be in the "", that is the Char literal in VB

Answer 3

idk whats the diff between keydown and keypress...?



Private Declare Sub keybd_event Lib "user32" Alias "keybd_event" (ByVal bVk As Byte, ByVal bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long)



Private sub press_enter()

keybd_event &HD, 0, 0, 0

keybd_event &HD, 0, 2, 0

End sub

Answer 4

you might have better results using the sendkeys api directly:



http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/vb/Tips/SendKeys_using_the_API/article.asp