How do you send another program the "TAB" key?

[Daniel_Christie]

I want to make it where I can define the number of "TABS" to send to a 3rd party program. This way the correct text box on the 3rd party program will have the focus and then I should be able to send text to the target textbox of the 3rd party program without ever having to know the specific textbox's hWnd. (Since I can not seem to get the hWnd for it.)

Thank you very much in advance for your help,
Daniel_Christie

[Joacim Andersson]

Try using the SendKeys statement.
SendKeys "{TAB}", True

Good luck!

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[Daniel_Christie]

I will do that, thank you.
But I would like to fully understand what the ",True" stands for?

[Buzby]

The True means that you program will wait for the keypresses to be processed by the other program - if you leave it False and then immediately sent another keypress to the program there's no guarantee that the program would behave how you expected. Best to leave it at True.



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