"Sendkeys" VB3 does not work in Win 98 - Any ideas?

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I have used "appactivate" which works in Win 98. "Sendkeys" has only worked once. If I use "Shell", "Appactivate" and "Sendkeys" together on something like calculator, the "Sendkeys" works. If I only use "Appactivate" on an application that is already open along with "sendkeys", the application gains the focus but no key strokes are sent or recieved. Are there any patches or additional files or anything that can help me?
Regards
Centre68

 

[Langolier]

hmmm...interesting. While I use VB 3 from time to time I primarily stick to VB 6. But I think I may have an idea of what your problem could be. When you SHELL to a program and then the SHELL command returns that program's "identifier" value, I assume you are using this value when you then go to APPACTIVATE and that works for you, right? Well, in VB 6 you can use this method, or....if you know the actual name of the running application, you can APPACTIVATE it that way as well and use SENDKEYS to send the keystrokes. I have not tested this with VB 3, though you may want to try it.

For example with "MSN Messenger", instead of:
programvar%=SHELL("c:\progra~1\msn\msmsgrie.exe",1)
APPACTIVATE programvar%

if the program is ALREAYDY running, try this instead:
APPACTIVATE "MSN Messenger Service"


hope maybe this helps, but as I said I haven't tested the second syntax in VB 3. I do know that it works in VB 6 however.