Send keyboard commands to another windows program

[Khalid]

I am attaching the SendKey VIs I downloaded from somewhere -- can't remember where from.  There's a Sendkey.txt file in the Zip that you will want to read, and maybe send a 'Thank you' email to the author. 

-Khalid

[wiebe@CARYA]

Roy,

Here are some "code snipplets". It shows the API's interfaces, but nothing more.

Sending the WM_KEYDOWN and WM_KEYUP message is tricky, but once you've got it down, it should work fine. You'll find the documentation in MS's MSDN.

Hope it help.

Wiebe.

[Biomed_developer]

Thanks Wiebe and Khalid. I got it working with keybd_event. But Wiebe's SendMessage seems to be very elegant. I will try that out.

Thanks again.

~Roy

[Ed007]

See the attached VI's. I used the keybd_event function to generate keyboard output from LabVIEW. These VI'sare best suited for touchscreen applications, and a resolution of 1280 X 1024. If you want to use them as subVI's, you can wire the reference to the desired string control from the calling VI. The virtual keyboard will pass its output to this string control. The string control from the calling VI is kept in focus by the keyboard VI. If you use it as a stand alone VI, you don't have to pass the string reference.

[tst]

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@Ed007 wrote:

These VI'sare best suited for touchscreen applications, and a resolution of 1280 X 1024...  The string control from the calling VI is kept in focus by the keyboard VI.

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That sounds exactly like something I want to do (creating a keyboard which will function like the windows OSK), but didn't get around to looking into yet.

Unfortunately, I can't open it. Can you backsave the VIs to 7 or 7.1? Thanks.

[Ed007]

OK, try this one. I backsaved to Version 7.1.

[tst]

Yes, this might help as a basis for some applications, even though it doesn't do a real simulation of the windows OSK. Thanks.