yet another VB question from Bolox

You can use SendKeys to achieve this or DDE or even an API solution. Let us try sending keystrokes first:

SendKeys "%{ENTER}" & Text1.Text & "{ENTER}"

where % is the ALT key modifier and Text1.Text contains the information to send.

Of course before you do this you need to activate the sabre application. You could use

AppActivate "SABRE"

Assuming that the title of the window of the sabre application starts with "SABRE" if not then use whatever it does start with.

ALT key modifier??????

Pressing ALT + ENTER at the same time, the Ctrl, Alt & Shift keys are generally referred to as modifiers because they are not keypresses in their own right but modify the way the other keys pressed at the same time behave.

the method......

appActive "Sabre"

what if Sabre is not open on screen, this causes an error and crashes,

what is the best way to do this....

if appactive "sabre" then
sendkeys........
else
msgbox"Sabre is not open"
end if

for some reason this does not work on this programme???

I have made a notpad called Sabre.txt opened that and that eworks great???

Maybe i should try your API ?

Any ideas?

It just kept up coming with your error,
Sabre is not loaded???

is there a way of saying..

open active window which has the textr "Sabre" in it somewhere????

B

Well you could use API solutions to enumerate all top level windows and find one that has the word sabre in it somewhere. Then set this window to have the focus.

Paste this code into a module:

Private strTitle As String
Declare Function EnumWindows Lib "user32" (ByVal lpEnumFunc As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Boolean
Declare Function GetWindowText Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowTextA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpString As String, ByVal cch As Long) As Long
Declare Function GetWindowTextLength Lib "user32" Alias "GetWindowTextLengthA" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
Declare Function Putfocus Lib "user32" Alias "SetFocus" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long
Declare Function SetForegroundWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long) As Long

Public Function EnumWindowsProc(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lParam As Long) As Boolean
    Dim sSave As String, Ret As Long
    Ret = GetWindowTextLength(hwnd)
    sSave = Space(Ret)
    GetWindowText hwnd, sSave, Ret + 1
    If UCase(sSave) Like "*" & UCase(strTitle) & "*" Then
        SetForegroundWindow hwnd
        Putfocus hwnd
        EnumWindowsProc = False
    End If
    Debug.Print Str$(hwnd) + " " + sSave
    EnumWindowsProc = True
End Function

Public Sub ShowWindow(ByVal WindowTitle As String)
    strTitle = WindowTitle
    EnumWindows AddressOf EnumWindowsProc, ByVal 0&
End Sub

Then call the ShowWindow Method like this:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
  ShowWindow "Sabre"
End Sub

The first window matching this name will be made the foreground window on the system.

Excellent yet again Tim,

You are my mentor

B

You are welcome bolox, any time.

Not for a while, no points left again

I know it has been a while, but i am just about to use this again.

If the window sare is not open, it goes into an infinite loop, trying to press the enterkey, (it only stopps if i press the windows key hence allowing the system to press enter)

Any ideas?

B