must have this in order to use the SendKeys function
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Public Class WinControl
‘ This is the function used in order to block the keyboard and mouse:
Declare Function BlockInput Lib “User32” _
(ByVal fBlockIt As Boolean) As Boolean
‘ This function will block the keyboard and mouse untill a window with
‘ the specify caption will appear or the given time in seconds has
‘ past ( 0 seconds – wait forever).
‘ If the window with the caption appears than the given key is send
‘ to it and the input block is removed.
Public Shared Function Wait2Send(ByVal caption As String, _
ByVal keys As String, ByVal seconds As Integer)
‘ Indicates if the window with the given caption was found
Dim success As Boolean = False
‘ Start time of the function
Dim now As DateTime = DateTime.Now
‘ Begining of keyboard and mouse block
BlockInput(True)
While (success = False And (DateTime.Now.Subtract(now).Seconds _
< seconds Or seconds = 0))
Try
‘ Activating the window with desired function
‘ if the window is not found an exception is thrown.
AppActivate(caption)
‘ Sending desired key stroke to the application window
SendKeys.SendWait(keys)
‘ Indicates the window was found and keys sent
success = True
Catch
‘ Assuming window was not found and sleep for 100 miliseconds
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(100)
End Try
End While
‘ Release the keyboard block
BlockInput(False)
End Function
End Class
