>Hi ,
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>Does anyone know how to force keyboard input to a running windows application. I have an cad cam program that can launch with a particular cad cam file open for viewing. I type in the RUN textbox: c:\CadCam\cadcam.exe file=c:\CadCam\BrooklynBridge.cad (BrooklynBride is the file that opens for display). If I then type:
>alt+f I G S alt+x , The cadcam program will save the displayed cad cam file as a jpg image.
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>I would like to launch cadcam.exe from within VFP7. Wait 10 seconds (which allows the cad cam file to be displayed), then I would like to send the above characters to cadcam.exe so that the displayed image can be saved as a jpg automatically without me actually typing them in. I remember we used do things like this in DOS with the pipe command.
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>I would like to do this from within VFP7
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>Any thoughts?
>Dr. G. (Neil)

An additional resource on this method, would be the second article that Ed Rauh and I wrote in a series on the Windows Script Host. It covered the Shell object, and appeared in the October, 2000 issue of the VFUG newsletter. It's available on-line at www.vfug.org.

We covered this particular problem in that issue.