Re: Send Keystrokes

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From: Helge Wunderlich (helge.wunderlich.spamtrap_at_ericsson.no)
Date: 03/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:42:39 +0100

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:36:56 -0500, "John Wilson"
<jwilson@optonline.net> wrote:

>I have a KVM switch that will toggle between two PC's whenever
>the Scroll Lock key is pressed twice in succession.
>
>What would I use for a vb script to duplicate these keystrokes, so that
>I could attach it to a shortcut on the desktop??

I don't think that will work. The KVM switch will look at the actual
electrical data from the physical keyboard. Injecting keystrokes into
Windows or remapping keys will not change these data, thus not
affecting the KVM switch at all. 

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