Sendkeys Spacebar

[Luis Miguel]

I need to copy the text from a Telnet session in a DOS window. I want to
activate the Control Menu to select Edit-Select All and then copy it, but I
can't find a way to do this.

I have googled it extensively and I have not found a way to put together the
keys Alt+Spacebar using Sendkeys. Apparently VBS does not have a code the
spacebar like it has for Enter and Alt.

Is this possible? Do you know of any other way to achieve this objective?

Thanks,

Luis.

[Stivie S.]

Hi Luis

please have a look at the "SendKeys" documentation in the MSDN library. Here you'll find information on how to send more than one character at a time, and how to send a "space" to an application. You can find the documentation here

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/wsmthsendkeys.asp

[Luis Miguel]

Thanks for your reply. I looked in MSDN, but as far as I can see there is no
documented way of simulating the pressing of the space bar (in
VBScript/WSH), which is what I need. I'm not trying to send a space. I was
hoping I could achieve this using the resources available in the OS but I'm
convinced I'll have to use a third party tool like AuotIt.



Appreciated,



Luis.

Hi Luis,
please have a look at the "SendKeys" documentation in the MSDN library.

Here you'll find information on how to send more than one character at a
time, and how to send a "space" to an application. You can find the
documentation here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/wsmthsendkeys.asp

[Harvey Colwell]

Just put a blank spave between two double quotes. I've used this is some of
my scripts.

oWS.SendKeys " "

Post by Luis Miguel
Thanks for your reply. I looked in MSDN, but as far as I can see there is no
documented way of simulating the pressing of the space bar (in
VBScript/WSH), which is what I need. I'm not trying to send a space. I was
hoping I could achieve this using the resources available in the OS but I'm
convinced I'll have to use a third party tool like AuotIt.

[Christine MacKenzie]

Luis, It seems we're working on a similar issue...

objShell.SendKeys "% " seems to work for most windows, but not when
trying to select this in a command prompt window after issuing a telnet
command.

Did you somehow solve this problem? Were you able to write a VBScript
that gets the result of a telnet command?




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[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

Post by Christine MacKenzie
Luis, It seems we're working on a similar issue...
objShell.SendKeys "% " seems to work for most windows, but not when
trying to select this in a command prompt window after issuing a telnet
command.
Did you somehow solve this problem? Were you able to write a VBScript
that gets the result of a telnet command?

Hi

For a Sendkeys solution that might work better for this scenario,
you should use AutoIt or AutoItX.

AutoIt/AutoItX is free and can be found here:
http://www.hiddensoft.com/AutoIt/


AutoItX is an ActiveX control version of AutoIt and can be used
from a vbscript.

[Christine MacKenzie]

We've been experimenting with AutoIT, and so far have not succeeded in
getting telnet's output on Windows 2000 using this approach. Luis, were
you ever able to get the solution you were working on completed?


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[larrydalooza]

Post by Christine MacKenzie
We've been experimenting with AutoIT, and so far have not succeeded in
getting telnet's output on Windows 2000 using this approach. Luis, were
you ever able to get the solution you were working on completed?
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http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit3/

Get AutoIt3. I am the expert. Here is an example.

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode",4)

Run("telnet")
WinWait(@SYSTEMDIR & "\telnet.exe")
$hWnd = "handle=" & WinGetHandle(@SYSTEMDIR & "\telnet.exe")

Sleep(1000)
ControlSend($hWnd,"","","!{SPACE}es{ENTER}")
$text = ClipGet()
MsgBox(4096,"",$text)

[larrydalooza]

Post by Christine MacKenzie
We've been experimenting with AutoIT, and so far have not succeeded in
getting telnet's output on Windows 2000 using this approach. Luis, were
you ever able to get the solution you were working on completed?
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get http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit3/

This is a tad more reliable for slower PCs

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode",4)
Opt("SendKeyDelay",500)

Run("telnet")
WinWait(@SYSTEMDIR & "\telnet.exe")
$hWnd = "handle=" & WinGetHandle(@SYSTEMDIR & "\telnet.exe")

Sleep(1000)
ControlSend($hWnd,"","","!{SPACE}es{ENTER}")
$text = ClipGet()
MsgBox(4096,"",$text)

[Fosco]

"Luis Miguel"

set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
oShell.run"notepad"
WScript.Sleep 500
oShell.SendKeys" this is a spacebar> <"
oShell.SendKeys" this also" & chr(32)
WScript.Sleep 500
oShell.SendKeys chr(32)
WScript.Sleep 500
oShell.SendKeys chr(32)
WScript.Sleep 500
oShell.SendKeys" "
WScript.Sleep 1500
oShell.SendKeys"% "

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Fosco