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Send Key Strokes to an APP not VFP
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
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00470543
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In a somewhat related thing to this, George have you looked in to the Events thing (can't remember what it's called) that VFP generates to external apps? Specifically at design time I'm talking about. It was demonstrated at DevCon where they repeated mouse clicks and keystrokes in a VFP wizard. It was when they demo'd how all objects in 7 are com objects so they play well with the visual and hearing impaired tools.

>>This merely activates the program but the keys go into the vfp app.
>>
>>Maybe there is some API call's I can use?
>>
>>Thanks
>
>Depends on the keystrokes, but here's a short sample from the second artricle in the Windows Script Host series that Ed Rauh and I have written. The series began in Sept. of last year.
* Create the Shell reference
>oShell = CREATEOBJECT("WScript.Shell")
>DECLARE Sleep IN Win32API;
>    INTEGER dwMilliseconds
>oShell.Run("Notepad")
>oShell.AppActivate("Untitled – Notepad")
>= Sleep(100) && Pause VFP for a 1/10 of a second
>oShell.SendKeys("This sends a sentence to Notepad from VFP.~")
Naturally, this requires that the WSH be installed. You can find the articles on-line at www.vfug.org
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