do CTRL + V (Paste)

I have a dialog box that pops up from a webbrowser window when i invoke click.

I have copied a filepath to the clipboard but does anyone know how i can do a ctrl + v to paste the text into the dialog filename window.

I have tried sendkeys but didnt work

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Originally Posted by stewmath

I have a dialog box that pops up from a webbrowser window when i invoke click.

I have copied a filepath to the clipboard but does anyone know how i can do a ctrl + v to paste the text into the dialog filename window.

I have tried sendkeys but didnt work

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It is not a good idea to copy text into a user's clipboard as you are overwriting their data. A better idea is to set the file path into the dialog directly. Where you are copying the file name into the clipboard copy it instead to a variable. When the dialog is ready to display place the info from the variable into the dialog.

Declare the variable

Code:

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Private FilePath As String = ""

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At some point set the variable then use it.

Code:

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MyOpenDialog.InitialDirectory = FilePath

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The only problem with your suggestion is that its not actually my dialog box thats open. Its one from a website, im using the invoke click method in a webbrowser control to click a browse box in a form.

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Originally Posted by stewmath

The only problem with your suggestion is that its not actually my dialog box thats open. Its one from a website, im using the invoke click method in a webbrowser control to click a browse box in a form.

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Seems like you will need to look at obtaining the window handle of the text box in question using VS Spy++ using either FindWindow or FindWindowEx API functions followed by SetDlgItemText API to set the text.


The following is not a solution but some code showing how to work with window handles.
http://www.vbforums.com/showpost.php...74&postcount=2


SetDlgItemText

Code:

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    Public Declare Function SetDlgItemText Lib "user32.dll" Alias "SetDlgItemTextA" ( _
        ByVal hDlg As Integer, _
        ByVal nIDDlgItem As Integer, _
        ByVal lpString As String) As Integer

    Public Const IDC_TEXT As Long = 1000

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Code should look something like this

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SetDlgItemText(hwnd, IDC_TEXT, "This is a string")

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I have not done this before (set text as you want in vb.net), the code above all came from searching via Google for about five minutes.