Re: Control another program
He's not sending keys to a hidden window, he his sending it from a hidden
window.
AliR.
"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com> wrote in message
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Take a look at this article:
http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/sendkeys_cpp_Article.asp
You may have problems if the hidden window is disabled.
Tom
<peterfarge@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hello Forum,
I want to use another program. It should be started hidden, some
inputs must be given and than a textbox be read.
I have get the hWnd with the help of GetWindowThreadProcessId().
If I send VK_RETURN with PostMessage(). The default button on the
foreign window would be pressed: PostMessage(hwnd, WM_KEYDOWN,
VK_RETURN, 0);
This means: I have found the right hWnd.
My next idea was to send a VK_TAB or VK_DOWN to switch between the
controls:
PostMessage(hwnd, WM_KEYDOWN, VK_DOWN, 0);
But both dont work. Why? What I must do instead? (SendMessage()
doesent work too, it only executes the msg immediately...)
OR:
I think that this problem is solved a lot of times. Can someone show
my an example source? Or tell me what the keywords are? "Control
another program C Source" doese not find proper entries in Google...
Thanks for the help
Peter
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