How To SendKey From Within Blitz ?

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semar (Posted 2003) [#1]

Hi all, I would like to use the VB-like AppActivate and SendKey commands from within a B+ application. Since B+ has not such commands, who would be so kind to tell me which DLL to use, and how to declare it in a .decls file ? Thanks, Sergio.

Beaker (Posted 2003) [#2]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/winui/WinUI/WindowsUserInterface/UserInput/KeyboardInput/KeyboardInputReference/KeyboardInputFunctions/keybd_event.asp and http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/winui/WinUI/WindowsUserInterface/UserInput/KeyboardInput/KeyboardInputReference/KeyboardInputFunctions/SendInput.asp Looks complicated. They both use user32.dll. I managed to get the mouse_event one to work a while ago.

semar (Posted 2003) [#3]

Thanks MasterBeaker, much appreciated. Hum, seems complicated indeed. Oh well. Sergio.

Beaker (Posted 2003) [#4]

The simplest way would be to just use Keybd_event - but I think when I tried it a few months ago it didn't work. :P Maybe I did something wrong. SendInput is way too complicated.