It seems like the problem is indeed with sendkeys happening too
quickly..but i have also concluded that when I try the Wscript.Sleep 500
command it is not compiling and my vbscript, and the sendkeys are never
sent. when i take the wait out...it works, but too quickly.
so i just need to find a working syntax to halt the vbscript. thanks for
the hint...i'll just try a bunch of things to try to narrow down.
On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 9:52 PM Tom Glod <t...@makeshyft.com> wrote:
> Hi Brian, thanks.....I have tried that, seems to work even less than
> without it.
>
> but you might be onto something here.... because sometimes "most" of the
> text gets written... mostly none.....and other times all of them. will
> keep on testing to see if i can find the cause of this inconsistency.
>
> Ty
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 6:02 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode <
> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> Have you tried adding a delay? It could be that the sendkeys is happening
>> before the app is ready for input. (Have not tried from LC, but I do
>> something similar in a .vbs file.)
>>
>> Wsh.AppActivate "Notepad" : WScript.Sleep 500
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brian
>> On Oct 12, 2018, 4:38 PM -0500, Tom Glod via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
>> > Hey folks, is anyone currently successfully using "do as vbscript" and
>> > sending keystrokes to other application windows?
>> >
>> > I have it set to work when i hit a hotkey....
>> >
>> > this is my vb script:
>> >
>> > Dim Wsh
>> > Set Wsh = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
>> > Wsh.AppActivate "Notepad"
>> > Wsh.SendKeys "Test abc"
>> >
>> > it works to focus notepad every time
>> >
>> > but only once in a while do the sendkeys work, what am I doing wrong?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Tom
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