sendkeys problems

[Luis Moises Rojas]

I'm trying to send the following keys from a command botton:
tab + alt in order to call all minimized APPs but it does not work.

What can be wrong in this simplest instruction?
sendkeys "%{tab}"
because it does nothing at all.

Do you know any other way?

[Mass]

I think it works

Private Declare Sub keybd_event Lib "user32" (ByVal bVk As Byte, ByVal bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long)

Private Const VK_TAB = &H9
Private Const VK_MENU = &H12
Private Const KEYEVENTF_KEYUP = &H2

Private Sub Command1_Click()
'Alt Down
keybd_event VK_MENU, 0, 0, 0
'Tab Pressed
keybd_event VK_TAB, 1, 0, 0
'Alt Up
keybd_event VK_MENU, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0

End Sub

[theman32x]

isn't the symbol for "alt" ^ ??

[Mass]

You may be right but I checked the code, it works fine.
you can omit the alt up to see what you want to choose.

[Luis Moises Rojas]

It works fine.