SendKeys help

im trying to write a simple automation system which does the following:

get a string data (easy)
click a textbox (easy)
SendKey(string data) - problems

now, the problem I am having is that when I am sending keys, say the text is:

"hi how are you"

sometimes it displays it just like that, most of the time it does this:


hii hooowwwww arrrreeeee yooouuuu


any ideas why?

code:

SendKeys.Send("hi how are you");

I dont know if i dont understand what you're asking, but doesnt SendKeys provide an automated way of sending keystrokes to an application?

fOr e.g. SendKeys.Send("{ESC}");


is the same as if the user pressed the escape key.

yes I am aware of that.
however I've resolved the issue now. Had to add a bit of a time delay

Could you post your code, i'm always interested in learning new things. I still dont think i fully understand your question.

Jennifer

code is pretty simple,

for (int counter = 0; counter < 10; counter++)
{

Clipboard.SetText("hi how are you");
SendKeys.SendWait("^(v)");
Thread.Sleep(300);
Clipboard.Clear();
}


how ever it still does the thing im complaining about.

ok well now after some time (using the same code), it just pastes like several times sometimes and others just as it is meant to.
all I want to do is paste once in a different position - I am of course setting the position to another textbox but when i execute the paste command key, as above, sometimes it just pastes the text several times.

Thanks, I think I understand what you're trying to do.

Jennifer

i think its almost resolved now, had to really tell it how many keystrokes/times it should send those keystroke:

Sendkeys.SendWait("^{v 1}");

meaning press the CTRL and v key, once