Problematic sendkeys ! -please consider another way...

[Ron]

http://www.girder.nl/help/faq.php#103

[AlCapone]

there's a lot of stuff that don't work.
examples:
try to remote goltrom excel , move to left/right up/down by sending arrow-keys - try to send shift-insert or shift-delete. (cut/paste)

in explorer - try to move among files (up/down) one file at time , you cannot - each "up" or "down" makes 2 moves - makeing it impossible to use...

hope you know more of these problems , I had experienced so many that I partially use" automate" (another program) to do some tasks.

- thanks for this great program (except the keyboard problems :)

[AlCapone]

-I do NOT like to disagree with you - but I must:

there's a lot of other stuff that works just fine , without sending double keys , and sending keys to any program works...
like "Automate" and not to mention my own old "IR-Commander"

so there is no reason for Girder to have any problems with something that basic.

anyway , you you could please tell me what API you use to send keys , I might find the difference between your and my progarms..

thnx

[Mark F]

Or perhaps you could write a replacement keyboard plugin?

[Ron]

To send keys to ARBITRARY program that are NOT in the foreground I'm using postmessage/sendmessage. To send keys to a foreground app I'm using keybd_event.

I have been looking around for better ways to handle this keyboard stuff, but all of the methods that I found either the target windows was the foreground window OR they brought the windows to the foreground temporarily and then sent them back, thus producing flashing.

I'd love to hear of a better way though.