sendkeys click

[charlesedwards]

How can I send a "click" via the sendkeys? what is the command?

 

[RADM]

Hi,

You mean to activate any command button click event?, call the routine directly. For example;

call cmdSave_Click()

Regards,

RADM

 

[charlesedwards]

How would I specify the button click event if it occurs on a different form (the form is open)?

Thanks.

 

[Blorf]

Can you select the object, and send the enter key? Seems like that would do it.

 

[charlesedwards]

I tried, Enter doesn't work. It needs to be click.

 

[charlesedwards]

It reads like this.

Private Sub TxtgetCountOfPhoneMessages_Click()
On Error GoTo HandleErrors

Forms![Company]![ListTabs] = "Phone Messages"
cmdClick (ListTabs_Click)
' the ListTabs_Click() is the event I would like it to 'trigger.

ExitHere:
Exit Sub

HandleErrors:
Select Case Err.Number
Case Else
End Select
Resume ExitHere

 

[RADM]

Hai Charles,

I think if you can create one public function which will activate the click event of ListTabs. Then call that function from your main form.

Regards,

RADM

 

[RADM]

Hai Charles,

To clear my previous solution, just create a public function in the sub form and just call click event of command button.

For example; frmCompany is the name of your subform
frmMain is your main form.

add this to frmCompany

Public Function ActivateTabClick()
call ListTabs_Click
End Function

Then from frmMain, call from anywhere as follows

forms![frmMain].ActivateTabClick

I had a similar problem before and worked out in this way.

Regards,

RADM

 

[comment]

This may be a silly question but where can i get the sendkeys.dll from?

I looked on my machine for it because i thought it was a dll which was included in windows. I did not find it.

Im developing a VB app in which i need to send password and username information to a dialog box.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[RADM]

Hi,

You're right. There is no sendkeys.dll library file available and sendkeys is a function part of VBA. Anyway don't bother about that, please check your VBA help file to get more about Sendkeys.

To display username and password information on a dialog box, it is not a good idea to use sendkeys function. You can directly use text boxes with proper masking facility.

Regards,

RADM

 

[comment]

Thanks for your previous response.

Actually, what im trying to do is automate the process of having to manually type my credentials for a pcAnywhere app.

So I figured that I could use sendkeys to send my credentials into the username and password fields. But I have also heard that sendkeys is somewhat unreliable.

Do you think that the Windows API might have some functionality that I could use to accomplish this task?