Clicking in another application

[Ross_m]

Hello,

If there anyway i can make my application type into another application and click submit on the other one?? Like i want to mirror what is happening. Hard to explain but tell me if this makes no sense

There is a server manager i want to be able to send custom messages at certain time.

thanks,

Ross

[dclamp]

use send keys

Private Sub Command1_Click()
     SendKeys {enter}
End Sub

[Ross_m]

But how would i tell it what application and text box to put it in?

[Ross_m]

Anyone??

[Ross_m]

How do i tell VB what application to sendkeys to and what textbox/button to click??

[Andrew G]

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...nd+text+window

[Ross_m]

Dosn't really help me in my question in post #5

[Andrew G]

Sendkeys sends to the control which currently has focus, using sendmessage would be better as the control does not need to have focus. But if you want to use sendkeys, then you will need to get the handle of the program.. display it, then make sure the focus is on the control before sending the text.

[Ross_m]

Arr okay. Do you know of a simple sendmessage tutorial page??

[Andrew G]

The link i posted should provide everything you need to find the control and send the text... but you can try doing a search. There should be plenty of examples. You can also check out the APIGuide, it will contain examples for many of the APIs.