SendKeys Statement 1

[FJAY]

Good Afternoon - sendkeys is not working when I try to send it to a C Shell prompt. The C shell prompt is opened from inside my Vb program. After it opens ti sends some commands using the SendKeys statement.

dim retVal
retval = shell("C Shell", 1)
Doevents
SendKeys cd ..
sendKeys ls.

Please somebody help me.

 

[BBaggins]

SendKeys can only plase keycodes into the current program's keyin buffer, it doesn't work across processes. Even though the shell is opened from within your program, it's still running in its own process space.