Simulating Keypress With VB.net

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  13 years ago

  by kumar k

  kumar

  , India

  Joined 13 years ago

  Hi, I have been searching around the net to try and find out how to simulate keyboard key presses and all I have been able to come up with so far are VB6 examples. I want to try and do this with VB.net.

  The bit of code I'm looking to use will do the following:

  1. Open up a webpage (which I have figured out ok)

  2. The webpage im loading is used to download a file and when you load the pages brings up the dialog box to either open the file, save it or cancel the download. What I want to do here is tab accross to the particular button I want to in this case the save button. Then I want it to simulate an return/enter button press.

   3. This will then open the browser box where I can choose where I want to put the file. As above I want to tab to the directory box and then add in the text for that and then tab to the save button and hit enter again.

  Anyway I probably went into more detail than needed but wanted to give you an idea of what I want the program to do.

  Has anyone got the keypress thing working in vb.net? I'm sure it should be a simple thing but I have searched and cannot find the answer. Anyway I hope I have given enough information and hope somebody can point me in the right direction.

   Robert

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  13 years ago

  by louisesanders

  Louise Sanders

  , South Africa

  Joined 13 years ago
  Use "SendKeys.Send(...)". You will have to read the help documentation for the method because some parameters (like tab keys) have to be enclosed in brackets, like SendKeys.Send({TAB}). These parameters may also be case-sensitive - I can't remember...
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  13 years ago

  by kumar k

  kumar

  , India

  Joined 13 years ago

  got that working ok, but went in a different direction and programmed it in c#, though from what I see the code is almost identical as it would have been in vb.

  thanks for replying.

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