Simulate Keypress without sendkeys.

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I have a jukebox program running that does announcements if you press certain buttons on the keyboard. I wanted to do the key presses using my own program, running in the background, based on certain time periods.

I have used sendkeys.send and my.computer.keyboard.sendkeys but it doesn't work.
This is strange because when I have notepad open the key press works.
The jukebox program announcements does work if you press the button yourself.

I was wondering if there was another way to do the key press.

Posted 17-May-12 23:52pm

MrZedSven

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MrZedSven 5-Jul-12 4:38am

Does anyone know how the windows on screen keyboard do it's key presses, because it works with the jukebox program.

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Stephen Hewison · Answer 1 · 2012-05-18T00:21:00

Solution 1

User account control in windows Vista and later can block send keys.

If one process has elevated permissions it won't be able to send keys to another.

Read the notes in the follow MSDN article:

SendKeys Class[^]

Posted 18-May-12 0:21am

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MrZedSven 18-May-12 6:29am

The computer is running Windows XP.