sendkeys

I've been bored, so I tried to make a program that writes a Look of Disapproval smiley(the ಠ_ಠ face) when pressing ctrl+shift+L. Now everything works, except for the underscore that is in the smiley, which won't get written at all. This was what I used first: SendKeys.Send("ಠ_ಠ"); I've tried various things, like adding {} brackets around the underscore, and of course I googled this too. Is there any way I can get the underscore to get sent? Thanks in advance. Mixing different encodings creates weird result. ಠ is Unicode, _ is ASCII. Different length characters confuse and iritate Visual Studio

I have a group of cells in my worksheet that use a data validation list. It works great, but I'd like the list to dropdown automatically when one of these cells gets the focus. I found some code online to make this work. Private Sub Workbook_SheetSelectionChange(ByVal Sh As Object, ByVal Target As Range) If Target.Worksheet.Name = "Sheet1" And Target.Column = 1 Then Application.SendKeys ("%{down}") End If End Sub Courtesy of: http://howoffice.com/automatically-open-the-drop-down-list-when-a-cell-get-focus-in-excel/ However, the issue I'm having is with the SendKeys causing the NumLock to

I am working on internet explorer automation and part of it involves downloading files from a site whcih is hosted on asp 2.0 and uses forms based authentication, so to create end to end automation I used browser automation. I was able to reach to the step where I can get to click on a URL which brings the "File Download" dialog of the browser, then I was trying to make use of SendKeys to click on the save button but to no avail it was not working. Here is the code where I make use of FindWindow method to get the hWnd pointer of the File Download Dialog, and then using setActiveWindow I make

I have an app that sits as a trayicon in the system tray. I have registered a Hotkey that when pressed will capture the current text selection in any application, even in Web Browsers. My aproach is to send the key combination {Ctlr + C} to copy the text. Then access the Clipboard and use the text in my own application. I am programming in VB.NET but any help in C# or even C++ with Win32_Api would be highly appreciated. I use AutoHotkey and there, I have a script which access the Clipboard text and works fine. Pause:: clipboard = ; Start off empty to allow ClipWait to detect when the text has

I created a simple test with SendKeys, and tried both SendWait and Send. Private Sub Form1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Click System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(10000) SendKeys.SendWait("If you can read this, it works." + "{ENTER}") End Sub I tested in skype, and a few of the letters doubled. I tested in Flash, I got "Iffff yyouu cccaaaannn rrreaaaddd thhhiiisss,,, iiittt wwwooorrrrkkks." Clearly the issue is caused by lag. What can I do to prevent doubling (or tripling) of letters? I'm probably missing something big here... Brian Webster In your app

I am pretty sure the following button-activated form code should raise a Control-F12 in my C# application: SendKeys("^{F12}"); But it does not appear to go on up to the windows shell and activate another program that is listening for it. My keyboard does work. It seems like the sendkeys is getting intercepted somewhere and not sent on in a way that actually simulates the key stroke. Any help? SendKeys is not capable of sending keys outside of the active application. To really and truly simulate a keystroke systemwide, you need to P/Invoke either keybd_event or SendInput out of user32.dll .