hmm, should be working. try sending 1 character at the time. you know the the difference between post- and send massage is that sendmessage will wait untill the receiving window has proccessed the message.


>What is funny is that I can see the focus on the textbox in the password window (the cursor flashes hundreds of times in it so the setfocus is at least working) by testing the below:
>

>DO WHILE Checkwin('Password')
>   WAIT WINDOW "Cursor is flashing in textbox of password window" NOWAIT
>ENDDO
>RETURN
>
>FUNCTION CheckWin
>PARAMETER tcTitle
>
>* Routine which sees if an application is active by looking for its
>* Window title
>* expC1 Window title
>
>DECLARE INTEGER FindWindow IN Win32API AS FindWindow STRING, STRING
>
>lnwindow = FindWindow(0,tcTitle)
>IF lnwindow > 0
>	#DEFINE WM_KEYDOWN  0x0100
>	#DEFINE WM_SYSCOMMAND  0x0112
>	#DEFINE WM_COMMAND 0x00110818
>	#DEFINE WM_KEYUP 0x0101
>	#DEFINE WM_SETFOCUS 0x0007	
>	
>	DECLARE SHORT PostMessage IN user32;
>    INTEGER   hWnd,;
>    INTEGER   Msg,;
>    STRING   @wParam,;
>    INTEGER   lParam
>
>	hwnd = lnwindow
>	cmessage = 'password'+CHR(13)+CHR(0)
>	ReturnValue = PostMessage(hwnd,WM_SETFOCUS,0,0)
>	ReturnValue = PostMessage(hwnd,WM_KEYDOWN, @cmessage,0)
>	ReturnValue = PostMessage(hwnd,WM_KEYUP, @cmessage,0)
>	RETURN .T.
>ELSE
>	RETURN .F.
>ENDIF
>

>
>
>hello Tracy,
>>
>>maybe i am way off here but there are two things i am thinking of right now:
>>
>>1. i you send keystrokes, make sure there is an object on the 'password' window that knows what to do with it. if u whant to fill a text box, make sure the textbox has the focus when the window receives the message. if u need to send some data to some of your code in the window, you need to register a new message with windows, and then catch it manually.
>>
>>2. if you have a textbox (not an editbox), i don't think you should send a chr(13) after the string, because then you're sending a two-liner, and the text box will show you the 2nd line (which is empty).
>>
>>hope i am not too far off :-)
>>
>>
>>
>>>Well the below should work, but nothing gets put in the password window.
>>>
>>>

>>>DO WHILE CheckWin('Password')
>>>   *--This will display until I close the password window as it should
>>>   WAIT WINDOW "Found the password window" NOWAIT
>>>ENDDO
>>>RETURN
>>>
>>>FUNCTION CheckWin
>>>PARAMETER tcTitle
>>>
>>>lnwindow = FindWindow(0,tcTitle)
>>>IF lnwindow > 0
>>>   #DEFINE WM_KEYDOWN  0x0100
>>>   DECLARE SHORT SendMessage IN user32;
>>>       INTEGER   hWnd,;
>>>       INTEGER   Msg,;
>>>       STRING  @ wParam,;
>>>       INTEGER   lParam
>>>
>>>    hwnd = lnwindow
>>>    cmessage = 'password'+CHR(13)
>>>    ReturnValue = SendMessage(hwnd, WM_KEYDOWN, @cmessage, 0)
>>>    RETURN .T.
>>>ELSE
>>>    RETURN .F.
>>>ENDIF
>>>

>>>
>>>Yet if I run that loop the wait window displays nonstop (as it should) until I close the password window. Once I do that, it exits the loop because lnwindow returns false. So everything is working EXCEPT sending the keystrokes to taht password window... Sheesh, you'd think it was Friday! :o()