Senkeys

I need to Sendkeys to another application from version 3 which works great,
however I am having problems with the control key. ie..."^(v)" does
nothing.
Any help?

Thanks PK

PK wrote:
> I need to Sendkeys to another application from version 3 which works
great,
> however I am having problems with the control key. ie..."^(v)"
does nothing.
> Any help?

It sounds like you are trying to paste something off the clipboard into
another application. That can be problematic in a Win32 environment. The
whole SENDKEYS thing is fairly problematic in a Win32 environment, and
entering text doesn't seem to work at all. Can you describe more
precisely what you are trying to do?

Are these problems addressed in the later versions such as the August 2001
version and do you know if and where it might be available.
Thank you
Paul

"Neil Robinson" <neil@simpol.com> wrote in message
news:fjmr45$rik$1@ipx22096.ipxserver.de...
> PK wrote:
> > I need to Sendkeys to another application from version 3 which works
great,
> > however I am having problems with the control key.
ie..."^(v)" does
nothing.
> > Any help?
>
> It sounds like you are trying to paste something off the clipboard into
> another application. That can be problematic in a Win32 environment. The
> whole SENDKEYS thing is fairly problematic in a Win32 environment, and
> entering text doesn't seem to work at all. Can you describe more
> precisely what you are trying to do?
>
> Ciao, Neil

PK wrote:
> Are these problems addressed in the later versions such as the August 2001
> version and do you know if and where it might be available.
> Thank you

No, this issue can't easily be addressed. It is inherent with the way
that Win32 is designed. It is not a failure of the SENDKEYS
implementation in Superbase, it is a problem with the whole concept of
SENDKEYS when used in Win32. The core issue is that in Win32, the window
that you think you might be sending keystrokes to, isn't necessarily the
right one.

In Win32, the frame window may be the one that you selected, but it may
not actually be the window that hosts the control you are trying to
reach. Things get even more complicated if the application used MFC,
since many MFC windows are not true windows in the operating system sense.

Just wanted to add one interesting note. I used send keys just prior to 
the Men's World Cup in Germany for ticket sales here in the US.

We had to process credit card charges for ticket sales in the US in 
EUROS. So we set up a special account to do this. The interface provided 
to us was web interface where we would have to process each credit card 
manually. We had previously recorded the requests for tickets and 
allocated our allotment of tickets. Next we had to charge the credit 
cards for those tickets. Time frame was 10 days.

I decided to try SENDKEYS again knowing the problems with Win 32. Tried 
current and old versions of Explorer and Netscape. All failed until I 
tried Opera. To my surprise everything worked. We processed credit card 
charges so fast that the credit card processor's system shut us down 
because we were processing so many transactions in such a short amount 
of time that their security systems lit up screaming fraud or something 
else fishy. Well we did get it straightened out in a day. The end result 
was 100,000+ transactions, 5 million euros and done in 3 days. I did use 
the WAIT command.