SendKey.llb

[JimboH]

Hi all,

There had been a library floating around for a while called SendKey.llb. Does anyone have a copy of it that I could use in LV 2009? I am trying to get a handle to an open window and send some keys to it.

Thanks,

Jim

[asbo]

Have you tried this? Simulating Keyboard Input to Generate an Event Programmatically

[JimboH]

I hadn't seen that vi, although there is this one as well http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/epd/p/id/3711

Neither vi demonstrates windows selection.

I have an API which doesn't expose passing in a particular value to a program. Instead their code does allow a prompt in which you can type the value.

To do this you need to first get the handle to the window, which is what that library helped with. I've found a couple of forum posts on the library, but the links are dead.

[Saverio]

For the windows selection you might be thinking of this: Windows API Function Utilities (32-bit) for LabVIEW

[JimboH]

Thanks for the reply. I have those vis as well. As perhaps the first comment on that page indicates, what I am looking for is lacking in that set of libraries. I was really hoping someone might have the files in their local collection ...

[asbo]

I found a couple posts on NI's forums that linked to a SendKey.llb attachment, but none of them worked (404'd). I reported the posts to the moderator.

To find a window, you can use the FindWindow() Windows API call. To set focus to a window, you can use the SetForegroundWindow() API call. Neither are very difficult to implement in a CLN. If the VI you're looking to target is a VI front panel that you can open a reference to, you can use the NativeWindow property:

[JimboH]

Thanks. I figured it out.