HELP: Sending keys to minimized application

[khickyphutz]

Hi All,

I would like to ask help regarding Sending of Keys to specific application which is not currently focus or which is minimized (not active).

Example: (But works only if the application is active)

Dim ReturnValue
ReturnValue = Shell("NOTEPAD. EXE", 1) ' Run Notepad
AppActivate ReturnValue ' Activate Notepad.
SendKeys "ABCDE"

My problem with this sample is that... it will only send the key to NOTEPAD application if notepad is the currently focused application. I wanna send keys to NOTEPAD even if it is not the current focused application.

Any idea on this?

Hope you guys can help me..

Thank you and God Bless,

Borgy Manotoy

[Killer42]

I think you might be out of luck.

Not sure I'm 100% correct, but the way I understand it is that SendKeys doesn't send them to anywhere in particular. It effectively just says to Windows "this key was pressed". Windows then handles the keypress as it would normally, which generally means that whoever has the focus will receive it.

That being said, I think it is possible to be minimised and still have focus.

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