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- Sendkeys in Visual Basic
- How do I place a pause using sendkeys?My problem is this - I need to copy a frame containing data from a web page and paste it into a particular worksheet in Excel then return to the start worksheet to begin the routine again.Sendkeys works fine up to the point...
- Tags: tonymorton@..., Microsoft Visual Basic, sendkey, Sendkeys
- Discussion threads 2007-06-16
- Alternative to SendKeys in Access VBA
- I’m currently using SendKeys “{esc}” to cancel a user’s input in some situations in BeforeUpdate events, as sometimes they don’t know how to go back to what the field said before they changed it.However, I’ve found SendKeys seems to be buggy – does anyone know an alternative?
- Tags: Microsoft Access, andrewafresh@..., Sendkeys
- Discussion threads 2007-05-25
- Calculator in access
- My friend wants to put a calculator applet into a form on Microsoft Access. Can you recommend any applets which will perform this requirement. Just a very simple + and - calculator, but one that is easy to use (ie: looking like the XP calculator) and also a calendar...
- Tags: access, applet, Calculator, form, Microsoft Access, rob_serve, Run Calculator, SendKeys Statement Example, SendKeys Statement Example This, windows
- Discussion threads 2006-01-19
- Add value changing functionality to the HTML file input element
- Setting the value is not 100% reliableIn a multithreaded environment it's possible that your process might loose processor after the focus setting instruction, and if the new running process also uses the focus setting instruction you might loose the keystrokes you're going to send to the file input... The probability...
- Tags: XML, sendkey
- Discussion threads 2005-09-20
- Closing MS Project 2000 MSGBOX from VB6
- I am trying to close a message box within MS PROJECT 2000 from VB6 using sendkeys. Automation fails when the sendkeys does not close a msgbox in the opened File:objRS.MoveFirst Do Until objRS.EOF strProjectName = strProjectDSN & Trim(objRS("PROJ_NAME")) ...
- Tags: jhouck@..., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, MS Project 2000, programming, Sendkeys
- Q&A 2005-04-07
- Choose your Windows XP search interface with the XP Search Toggle utility
- When your users don't need all the bells and whistles of XP's Search Companion, they can edit the registry to switch to the Basic Search version, or they can use Greg Shultz's Search Toggle utility to do it for them. This Drill Down explains how.Windows XP’s Search Companion has many...
- Tags: SEARCH, Scripting languages, Greg Shultz, registry, Microsoft Windows XP, XP Search, Sendkeys, Basic Search, XP Search Toggle, Microsoft Windows
- Technical articles 2002-11-20
- Automate tasks with Windows Script Host's SendKeys method
- Are repetitive computer tasks taking up all of your time? Learn how to use the SendKeys method to automate those tasks that use the same keystroke and mouse combinations.Hidden deep within the Windows Script Host’s object model is a small but powerful method called SendKeys that allows you to send...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Operating systems, Greg Shultz, Windows Script Host 5.6, Sendkeys, Windows Script, Microsoft Windows, WSH
- Technical articles 2002-06-11
Additional Resources
- Sendkeys Replacement for Visual Basic (exe)
- Sendkey is a direct replacement for Visual Basic's Sendkeys which works under the Vista operating system. To use it, all you have to do is add the module to your project then replace "Sendkeys" with "Sendkey" in your code. Sendkey interprets all Sendkeys parameters without modification. The demo is a...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Basic, Sendkey, Microsoft Development Tools, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-09-19
- VBS script failure
- I got a Vbs login script i want to use to execute commands in cmd with admin privileges. It sometimes fails to load properly and hangs at "enter the administrator password" and doesnt send the password while sometimes it works perfectly.Can anyone see what i have to change or do?Option...
- Tags: mdegroodt@..., WScript.Sleep 100 oShell.Sendkeys
- Discussion threads 2007-08-14
- Have Access easily select data for overtyping
- Your Access forms will be easier to use if users can simply type over existing data without having to select it first. By adding a short procedure to each text box control's OnClick event to select the data automatically, users will not have to take time to click and drag...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Microsoft Office, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Mary Ann Richardson
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- VBA - OCR Automation
- I am having a problem with a Word VBA macro that is supposed to automate an OCRoptical character recognition task described as follows:1)Open Paint2)Paste the selected picture to Paint3)Save it as a tif in temp folder4)Close Paint5)Open MSPVIEW.EXE Microsoft Office Document Imaging with this picture6)Perform a OCR scan and send...
- Tags: Scripting languages, rucas@..., Microsoft VBA, MSPVIEW, Open MSPVIEW.EXE, Win32 API Const KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, OCR Automation, Win32_Process
- Discussion threads 2007-10-23
- TaskGhost (exe)
- TaskGhost is a VBScript based task scheduling service that includes a superset of UNIX Cron syntax for trigger specification, a mutli-threaded VBScript interpreter, and full Win32 support for user impersonation, FTP, SendMail, and SendKeys. TaskGhost fully supports synchronous, asynchronous and detached no console mode program execution. TaskGhost utilizes both Domain...
- Tags: Microsoft VBScript, TaskGhost, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-03-09
- VB6 Tip: Selecting all text when a Text Box gets the focus
- Any users?Anybody who used this tip, please share your experience.Wrong SolutionThis is a wrong solution for the problem and also not in line with the default windows behaviour. In the default Windows behaviour, a tab used to get focus on a text box should select the whole text but...
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, RexWorld, Selecting
- Discussion threads 2005-01-24
- Access 2000 email-send ,Outlook security
- i would like to send emails to a group of clients in my access database. I am using the sendobject method to do that the problem is that the program always pops a warning that :: A program is trying to send an email on your behalf would you want...
- Tags: Access 2000, e-mail, kanisiousm@..., Microsoft Access, Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Security, security, software
- Q&A 2005-03-17
- Automate Chkdsk and Defrag on XP machines
- Running regular Chkdsk and Defrag tasks is a must for keeping Windows PCs healthy. This download contains a batch file that can save you some time by streamlining both tasks on Windows XP machines.http://techrepublic.com.com/5138-6288-729266.htmlTry the download and then post your feedback.Whither 2k?Yes, it's easy when you have defrag.exe to run....
- Tags: Automate Chkdsk, Chkdsk, Defrag, Jason Hiner, Microsoft Windows XP, networking
- Discussion threads 2004-10-29
- Simple Windows Scheduled Tasks Question
- I am trying to automatically schedule a daily sync session via windows scheduled tasks however I'm having one problem. The file I need to run opens a popup to select the profile and then I must click OK for the process to carry out. Once the auto scheduler runs the...
- Tags: Scripting languages, dr.turkey@..., Microsoft VBScript, click ok
- Discussion threads 2007-11-04
- Disabling Context Menus in Access Forms
- Hi There - This is my first time working with VBA for Access, after learning client server applications with sql and c# in school, so bear with me. I'm building a form which will allow a user to enter dates, and wanted to use the calendar control for ease of...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, Databases, Programming languages, chuckaduck@..., calendar control, context menu, Microsoft Access
- Discussion threads 2007-07-03
- Use this script to quickly configure Outlook signatures
- Would you like to add a special note to your Outlook signature each week--like a reminder to your staff? Here's a script that lets you modify your signature without having to drill down through layers.You’d probably rather not waste time hunting for application options that are inconveniently placed deep in...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Michael Jackman, Windows Script, WSH, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Outlook
- Technical articles 2002-08-15
- VBA to maximise/zoom to 90%
- I am fairly new to access so excuse that. I would like to have some simple VBA, that is entered in the open event of an access report, which maximises/zooms the report to 90% of its size (if I put a macro to maximise it, it is to big and...
- Tags: Scripting languages, VBA
- Q&A 2005-08-04
- Automatically close running application
- Is there a way to close a running application in Windows with a batch file? The catch is in order to close the application you need a password. So, I would like to automatically close this application java app, enter password to close, then restart app all with...
- Tags: Construction, cwill@..., password
- Discussion threads 2007-08-28
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