Basics for Sending Keystrokes with Windows API? (VB API)

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Basics for Sending Keystrokes with Windows API?

I am unclear about sending keystrokes with the windows API; I read Dan Appleman’s Win32 API book chapter regarding this and looked at the example app (which did not fully function on Windows 2000), but I scratch my head; Can someone offer me the basics to get me going or maybe show me a web link so I can learn more?

Thank you!

–Llyal

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Here’s are the steps to using the API to press the Print Screen key:

1) Declare the function (at the top of the module):

Private Declare Sub keybd_event Lib “user32” (ByVal bVk As Byte, ByVal _
bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal dwExtraInfo As Long)

2) Set any constants you want to their key hex values:

Private Const VK_SNAPSHOT = &H2C
Private Const KEYEVENTF_KEYUP = &H2
Private Const VK_MENU = &H12

3) Call the function in your code:

keybd_event VK_SNAPSHOT, 0, 0, 0

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Kevin,

Thanks; once I learned that the keycodes were Hex values, using this API lib became a snap;

–Llyal

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Do you need the virtual-key code list?

Try Here

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