Re: Sendkeys / keybd_event Suggestion and Help Nneeded

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JF,

I'm a noob here and as most am looking for a quick and easy solution.
How difficult can it be to spawn a process, send a keystroke, wait 3
seconds, send another keystroke, wait 3 seconds and then kill the
spawned application (actually the second keystroke will kill the
application so it's really this:

spawn a process
wait 3 seconds
send a keystroke
wait 3 seconds
send a keystroke (this one, ESC, kills the app)

I have spent the last 6 hours reading about shell, wait, API process
calls, SendMessage API. PostMessage API, Sleep API and other to the
point that I'm not sure what method I shyould be using is. As far as
your AX EXE suggestion, I have never attempted something like that and
it sounds over my head.

John

J French wrote:
On 14 Aug 2006 09:28:31 -0700, jcrouse1@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

J French,
Thank you for the reply. I am somewhat familiar with what you are
talking about. I have used it in VB .Net. I will look into it.

If you think there is a better method please go on. I wrote the parent
app myself so I have full control over it if I need to do anything to
the code.

You wrote both Apps ?

In that case the world is your oyster
- make the one you want to control an AX EXE
... or anything

Not sure about the .NET stuff
- we tend to be VB5/6 here

.

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