VB 6.0: sendkey Holding a button down

I have figured out how to use sendkey to send key presses to other apps, but how would you go about sending a key press and hold to other apps?

IE: press and hold W for 10 seconds.

Code:

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Private Sub Form_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
    Debug.Print KeyCode
    'Place your sendkey code here, it will repeatedly send the code
End Sub

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by Tontow

I have figured out how to use sendkey to send key presses to other apps, but how would you go about sending a key press and hold to other apps?

IE: press and hold W for 10 seconds.

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What is your end goal with this?

I was playing around with sendkeys and was just wondering if it could be done without it sending tens of thoushands of repeating keypresses.

Place a timer on the form and perform the sendkeys in there?

Code:

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Dim lngCount As Long

Private Sub Form_KeyDown(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
    Timer1.Enabled = True
End Sub

Private Sub Form_KeyUp(KeyCode As Integer, Shift As Integer)
    Timer1.Enabled = False
    lngCount = 0
End Sub

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()

If lngCount = 10 Then
    ''sendkeys here
    MsgBox "Key sent"
End If

lngCount = lngCount + 1

End Sub

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You missunderstood, I want to send the keydown and keyup events to another app.