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SendKeys in VBScript - 9/7/2004 12:12:26 AM

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Hi,

I'm having some trouble with the SendKeys statement in a pre-.Net version of VBScript, AFAIK version 6. According to the MSDN v6 help files, I should be using the following code to send a TAB character:

SendKeys "{TAB}", True

However, when I run my code this throws an Error 13: Type mismatch: 'SendKeys'
Microsoft VBScript runtime error

The MSDN website appears only to list code examples for VBScript.Net.

Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?

TIA
Ax

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Re: SendKeys in VBScript - 9/7/2004 12:21:11 AM

devguy

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In VBScript there is no 2nd parm for sendkeys and it is a method of WScript.Shell - it should read...

WSH = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WSH.SendKeys "{TAB}"

You can find more information at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/wsmthsendkeys.asp

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Re: SendKeys in VBScript - 9/7/2004 12:43:43 AM

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Many thanks, I found that page before but when I came across problems I assumed I was looking at the wrong version.

Using your code, I get an error 424 - Object Required: 'WScript', yet according to the MS help page on WScript ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/wsObjWScript.asp ) I should never need to instantiate the WScript object - it should always be available.

Am I missing something?

Can you help?
Ax

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Re: SendKeys in VBScript - 9/9/2004 12:26:25 AM

devguy

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Sorry, the code should have used the SET statement as so:

Set WSH = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WSH.SendKeys "{TAB}"

The WScript object is available, however, you need to create a reference to the Shell to use SendKeys.

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