sendkeys

[blueye89]

Hi everyone.
I have some questions for you.
I am working on my application which save work from another application using sendkeys:

SendKeys.Send("^(s)")
SendKeys.Send("file")
SendKeys.SendWait("{ENTER}")


And it works fine,but my problem is that I don't know why sometimes name of the saved file is "file" and sometimes "ile" and sometimes "e".

Why??

[jmcilhinney]

My guess would be that focus changes while the key strokes are being sent. SendKeys works just like typing at the keyboard. If focus changes to a different window while you're typing then your keystrokes are sent to that new window.

[blueye89]

But I set focus on that application.Probably due to the speed at which the keys are sent. Any other opinion??

[jmcilhinney]

Try adding a delay before SendKeys.Send and see if it works all the time. If it does then you know that it's a focus issue. This is what developers do: they test things to see whether they work as expected.