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I need to send the key combo CTRL+I in an application,
dim Pb1 set Pb1 = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Pb1.run "ARUser" , 1 WScript.sleep 1000 Pb1.sendkeys "pb{tab}pb{tab}~" WScript.sleep 5000 Pb1.sendkeys "(^I)"
that's my application so far, but when it should do the CTRL+I nothing happens, I've tried like "^(I)" among many other things but none have worked, can anyone tell me how to send CTRL+I?
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If that doesn't work, try "{^I}". I'm nearly certain that using parentheses is incorrect which are used for sending repeating keys and cannot be used with "combo" keys like ctrl, shift, & alt.
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sigh, ya "^I" was my first guess, then "(^I)" "^(I)" and so on and so forth, but none of those works, nor does "{^I}" <--that one gives a runtime error while all others simply have no effect at all
I believe the correct syntax is "^(i)"...sendkeys uses a literal translation, so it will interpret "I" as a capital I. So it will send nothing meaningful, since you don't include the "+" operator to send a shift. That would be my guess, I hate using sendkeys since it can get so complicated, especially if you have to send a lot of keystrokes.
Marcus, you're right about about sendkeys seeming to be complicated... flakey is how I'd describe it. BTW, it works for me without the parentheses also... just "^i". I'm still not getting "{INS}" to be recognized however and I've never discovered how to send other "special" keys such as the large plus key on the numeric keypad... my text editor uses it for special purposes.
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I have heard there's a way to use the keyboard map (where it tells u a number for every key) and sendkeys to cooperate in what you are trying to accomplish Xandros, but I do not know the specifics, I also am interested to figure that out, if I find the answer I'll post it for you
I discovered a few minutes ago that using {INSERT} works where {INS} did not... go figure! Also, just found out (google search) that SendKeys in .net is doumented as supporting the +, -, *, and / keys on the numeric keypad... but using {ADD}, which is defined to be the large PLUS key, doesn't work in VBScript
sendkeys is like macros...its like a robot typing out the keys instead of you, thats the way I think of it. So case has to be factored in (since when I type I have to press the shift key to send a capital letter), and oddities such as using +, ^, %, etc. as operators AND needing to use their literal keystroke representation have to be accounted for when writing a script. If you read the following, it seems as if even the microsoft engineers who do these writeups seem befuddled by some of the rules. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/wsmthsendkeys.asp
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