i want to send keys into my from when my form is minimized and Not in focus
SendKeys.Send("{TAB}")
works but only when my form is on focus.
and this is very not convenient, if the user want to minimize the application then the application send the keys to everywhere, i want that the application send the keys only to my application.
So I need a function that looks like this:
Dim wb As New WebBrowser
wb.Navigate(urll)
WaitToWb()
'Send Keys To WebBrowser
SendKeysToBrowser(Me.Handle, wb, "{TAB}")
i need that the function send the keys only to my webbrowser, if my application is minimized the keys send only to the webbrowser control.
there is a function that can send keys only to my application when my application is minimized?
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I have a web browser control in a custom task pane control (User Control) and I open it as a sidebar as soon as my Outlook opens (I have created it as an Outlook Addin using Visual Studio 2013). The web browser control has a login form inside it and I would like to place focus on an input control in my web browser control as soon as Outlook opens. I have tried several tricks like placing focus on the custom user control and then placing focus on the input control after the form has loaded but it doesn't place focus on it. Also I have been trying to allow the use of Tab and Delete keys to work inside the web browser control so that I can tab to other controls and play with it like we would do it on a normal browser window. Kindly let me know how I can achieve this as I am out of ideas.
Cheers.
Try to use the Excel WebBrowser Control instead of the System.Windows.Forms WebBrowser; it handles special key forwarding as TAB, DEL, CTRL+V, etc.
For that change the WebBrowser contructor from
new System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser();
to
new Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.Controls.WebBrowser();
You would need to add references to your project:
Project/Add Referernce/Extensions select
Microsoft.Tools.Outlook & Microsoft.Tools.Outlook.v4.0.Utilities
Doc: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.tools.excel.controls.webbrowser.aspx
You can only do that if you install a Windows hook (SetWindowsHookExW(WH_GETMESSAGE, YourHookProc, 0, GetCurrentThreadId()) and in the hook proc detect that messages are supposed to go to your browser, and redirect them accordingly.
It works partially this way but not 100%. First I had to set the TabStop property to True for my webbrowser control and then just set the focus once the document was loaded and that was it. The tab, delete, backspace keys all ran properly.
Private Sub CustomTaskPane_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
TestWebBrowser.Size = New Drawing.Size(Me.Width, Me.Height)
Me.Focus()
TestWebBrowser.Navigate(url)
WaitForPageLoad()
TestWebBrowser.TabIndex = 0
TestWebBrowser.TabStop = True
End Sub
Private Sub TestWebBrowser_DocumentCompleted(sender As Object, e As Windows.Forms.WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs) Handles TestWebBrowser.DocumentCompleted
' Now set the focus on the Web Browser Control
TestWebBrowser.Focus()
End Sub
This question is related to Visual Basic .NET 2010
Hey. I need to capture keys from a window handle on my form. This is what my code does:
Use a webbrowser control to navigate to a website
Get window handle of an object on the webbrowser
user32.SetParent() to a new UserControl on my form
Now the object that initially was on the webbrowser is displayed in a control on my form, but any keys sent to that control don't register on the events .KeyDown() and .KeyUp().
So how do I capture the keys from the window handle?
I have setup a userform1 to browse an intranet using web browser controls in VBA/Excel. The problem I am having is that when the user initiates a popup through the web browser control, that popup runs in IE by default, outside of the scope of the web browser control, and therefore doesnt contain the correct session data in the popup. This popup initiates from a dropdown box, onchange command and then inserts the input from the popup back into a web form on the page. The code below intercepts the popup event and lets you handle it, by transferring it to say, userform2
Private Sub WebBrowser1_NewWindow2(ppDisp As Object, Cancel As Boolean)
Dim frm As UserForm2
'Dim ppDisp As Object
Set frm = New UserForm2
Set ppDisp = frm.WebBrowser1.Application
frm.Show
End Sub
Problem is, it gets stuck right now on frm.show, when I pause, and doesnt seem to be actively transferring over the web page correctly into userform2. I'm not sure where my logic is wrong here, any advice would be helpful. Most guides have shown:
Set ppDisp = frm.WebBrowser1.object
But I cant find that in the object browser anywhere, and doing .object bombs out, as error 438: object doesnt support this property or method. But everything I could find on this so far shows using .object.
for anyone reading this, VBA wont support this method as the above says. It works perfectly in .net and I would assume then, vb6
i know that sendkeys function is not the right way to change text of text box
i just want to try the function although that this function is not Effective
lets say that i got form with textbox and timer
Timer1.Interval = 1000
Timer1.Tick:
textbox1.Focus()
sendkeys.Send("123")
now evrey second the timer send keys into my textbox.
if i Minimize My Application the application send keys to EvreyWhere
lets say that i open NotePad And Then Run My Application the application send the keys into notepad and not my application
how can i send keys only to my application?
The problem is once your application is minimized it is no longer the active application. SendKeys sends to the Active Application. Take a look at this Forum Link for possible options
From above link:
Use SendKeys to send keystrokes and keystroke combinations to the
active application. This class cannot be instantiated. To send a
keystroke to a class and immediately continue with the flow of your
program, use Send. To wait for any processes started by the keystroke,
use SendWait.
Is it possible to have a Msgbox without a button on it in a console application. I would like to have a msgbox pop up and then disappear when the task has been completed. Or could I send the msgboxresult to some form of window that would just disappear when the file has been written?
MsgBox("The users on the domain are being gathered. A prompt will appear when all information has been gathered.")
Dim userFile2 As String = savefileDialog1.FileName & ".txt"
Dim fileExists2 As Boolean = File.Exists(userFile2)
Using sw As New StreamWriter(File.Open(userFile2, FileMode.OpenOrCreate))
For Each d As DirectoryEntry In de.Children()
sw.WriteLine(d.Name)
Next
End Using
If you want to have a console app with a GUI, I'd suggest that it might be easier to just make a WinForms app. Just create a new tiny WinForms app, make the default Form small as a dialog box and make it have only one invisible Close button.
Then you can just show the Close button when it's finished.
Just remember to disable the Control box on the Form (the X up in the top right hand corner) and handle any keyboard combination that could close it.
Edit: Or if for any reason you have to have it as a Console app, then you could still write a tiny separate app that just does the GUI part that you need and have the Console app start up the GUI app, sending over the text to display.
First, a quick point. A MsgBox is a modal dialog so will halt execution until the user responds, you can't use this.
In general "console" applications should be non-graphical.
You don't want to use a console application to disiplay a window. Since .Net 4.0 is available to you may want a WPF application that can write to the console.
There is a post about outputting to the console with WPF here on SO.
You should do your work on a different thread perhaps using a System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker. This will allow the Window to respond to user interaction and render while your task progresses.