Hi Barbara,

If you need more control of automation i would suggest WinBatch (http://www.winbatch.com), Its great.
I just few minutes back read about AutoIt (http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/) Never used but this is free.In This u can even create exe file and call from vfp without any autoit files, and its small.

>Hi all,
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>I need to be able to start a program from within VFP, wait until it is up and running and then send keystrokes to that program. In the past I have been able to use CREATEOBJECT and then used SENDKEYS but cannot use CREATEOBJECT to start this program so I'm not sure how to go about this.
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>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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>Barb