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On vb5prgrmr's advice, I've been wrestling with SendMessage and PostMessage… …and while I wrote this, I was able to get it to work. I should have used PostMessage for this app. I can send characters, function keys- this is cool. You know, even though thousands of people have done this...

I have automated an ancient application using SendKeys. The process takes 20 to 30 minutes to run every day, and during this time the computer is unusable (since SendKeys sends the keystrokes to the topmost window.) Is there an API solution that works regardless of a windows postion or state?

I know this is a few months old, but in case you haven't found the answer- this is a known SendKeys bug (and one I deal with daily.) Here's the Microsoft KB number: Q179987

I'm sorry, I'm using VFP6.

I don't normally use the App Builder Wizard, but I started playing with it today and I'm curious: I asked it to create a splash screen with my name and I'm wondering where it stores the name info. I've searched the code, include file, classes, etc. and I can't find it.

I have a series of views the customer will never see, but the program runs repeatedly (1000s of times.) I can create the views in advance or on the fly from a code module, and I'm wondering how much of a speed difference there is. I'd rather execute SQL statements from the code (I'm not on...

Thank you all very much- your suggestions helped. I have another question, but its unrelated so I'll start a new thread.

I just started using VFP 6 this week and I'm already having issues with the query designer. Can I create and save queries and views without the designers?

I am importing text from files that have headers and other non-importable garbage. I can handle this with a complicated routine which processes each line before adding the text to the table, or I can create a temporary, properly formatted text file, import it with TransferText and then destroy...