SendKeys Macro

Use the SendKeys macro to send keystrokes to the Encompass360 application.

Parameters:

 
  • Key Sequence: The series of keystrokes to send to the Encompass360 application.

 

Additional Information:

 

Each key is represented by one or more characters. To specify a single keyboard character, use the character itself. For example, to represent the letter A, pass in the string A to the method. To represent more than one character, append each additional character to the one preceding it. To represent the letters A, B, and C, specify the parameter as ABC.

The plus sign (+), caret (^), percent sign (%), tilde (~), and parentheses ( () ) have special meanings to the SendKeys macro. To specify one of these characters, enclose it within braces
( { } ). For example, to specify the plus sign, use {+}. To specify brace characters, use { { } and { } }. Brackets have no special meaning to the SendKeys macro, but you must enclose them in braces. In other applications, brackets do have a special meaning that might be significant when dynamic data exchange (DDE) occurs.

To specify characters that are not displayed when you press a key, (ENTER or TAB, for example), and keys that represent actions rather than characters, use the codes in the following table.

 

Key

Code

BACKSPACE

{BACKSPACE}, {BS}, or {BKSP}

BREAK

{BREAK}

CAPS LOCK

{CAPSLOCK}

DEL or DELETE

{DELETE} or {DEL}

DOWN ARROW

{DOWN}

END

{END}

ENTER

{ENTER}

ESC

{ESC}

HELP

{HELP}

HOME

{HOME}

INS or INSERT

{INS} or {INSERT}

LEFT ARROW

 {LEFT}

NUM LOCK

{NUMLOCK}

PAGE DOWN

{PGDN}

PAGE UP

{PGUP}

PRINT SCREEN

{PRTSC}

RIGHT ARROW

 {RIGHT}

SCROLL LOCK

{SCROLLLOCK}

TAB

{TAB}

UP ARROW

{UP}

F1

{F1}

F2

{F2}

F3

{F3}

F4

{F4}

F5

{F5}

F6

{F6}

F7

{F7}

F8

{F8}

F9

{F9}

F10

F10 {F10}

F11

{F11}

F12

{F12}

F13

{F13}

F14

{F14}

F15

{F15}

F16

{F16}

Keypad add

 {ADD}

Keypad subtract

{SUBTRACT}

Keypad multiply

{MULTIPLY}

Keyboard divide

{DIVIDE}

 

To specify keys combined with any combination of the SHIFT, CTRL, and ALT keys, preceded the key code with one or more of the following codes.

 

Key

Code

SHIFT

+

CTRL

^

ALT

%

 

To specify that any combination of SHIFT, CTRL, and ALT should be held down while several other keys are pressed, enclose the code for these keys in parentheses. For example, to specify to hold down SHIFT while E and C are pressed, use +(EC). To specify to hold down SHIFT while E is pressed, followed by C without SHIFT, use +EC.

To specify repeating keys, use the form {key number}. You must put a space between the key and number. For example, {LEFT 42} means press the LEFT ARROW key 42 times; {h 10} means press H 10 times.

 

Return Value:

None

 

Example:

The following sample code opens the REGZ-TIL form by sending an ALT-F, ALT-Z key combination.

 

Macro.SendKeys("%(FZ)")