Hi Mike,
Thank you for the ref to SendKeys. That is exactly what I was looking for. But I have hit a snag and maybe I need something else. This is the poop:
I am able to activte an application and send it key strokes via the script host however, if I want to drive the apllication into a mode that causes a modal dialog to popup, I am not able to sendkey successfully into the modal dialog. It seems as if my control of the app stops until that modal dialog is closed. I tried including the name of the modal dialog in the AppActivate method but that did not work. Perhaps the solution to this is as simple as some keyboard macro routine? I am at a loss and this is a real app breaker.

please give it some thought,
Thanx,
Dr. G.(Neil)

>Hi Neil,
>
>Check out Windows Script Host - SendKeys Method. You can also find lots more info about WSH by starting with a search here on UT.
>
>Mike
>
>>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)