You will want to search for these two windows messages: wm_gettext wm_settext
The implications are obvious from their names. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Byerley" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 10:28 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Send character to screen : You can do it using the Windows API, Sendmessage, to copy the text and send : it to the other program directly, without clipboard being involved at all... : : You use SendMessage with DLCall. : : You can goto microsoft library at msdn.microsoft.com and search for : SendMessage function to get a little familiar with it before I map it out : for you. : We can do this on list for the benefit of others. : : : : : : ----- Original Message ----- : From: "Dan Goldberg" <[email protected]> : To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> : Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 10:11 AM : Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Send character to screen : : ::I have a form that has a button and a memo field. :: :: What I need to do is copy the text to the clipboard and press control-z to :: for the other program that is running to do it's thing. :: :: I found property to copy the text to the clipboard but need to find a way : to :: have Rbase press control-z for me. :: :: Dan :: :: -----Original Message----- :: From: Mike Byerley :: Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 7:00 AM :: To: RBASE-L Mailing List :: Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Send character to screen :: :: In VB there is SendKey.. In RBase there is none. :: :: If you supply a little more detail, the answer might be a little more : clear :: cut as to whether there is a workaround. :: :: :: ----- Original Message ----- :: From: "Dan Goldberg" <[email protected]> :: To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> :: Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 9:17 AM :: Subject: [RBASE-L] - Send character to screen :: :: :: I need to put a button on a form that sends a Ctrl-Z to screen that runs :: another program. :: :: I think I have read on how to do this but it has been a long time. :: :: Does anyone know the command to send a character to the screen? :: :: TIA :: :: Dan Goldberg :: :: --- RBASE-L :: ================================================ :: TO POST A MESSAGE TO ALL MEMBERS: :: Send a plain text email to [email protected] :: :: (Don't use any of these words as your Subject: :: INTRO, SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, SEARCH, :: REMOVE, SUSPEND, RESUME, DIGEST, RESEND, HELP) :: ================================================ :: TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: :: Send a plain text email to [email protected] :: In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: INTRO :: ================================================ :: TO UNSUBSCRIBE: :: Send a plain text email to [email protected] :: In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: UNSUBSCRIBE :: ================================================ :: TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: :: Send a plain text email to [email protected] :: In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: SEARCH-n :: (where n is the number of days). In the message body, :: place any :: text to search for. :: ================================================ :: :: : :
