You aren’t setting the flags and scan fields, depending on the keystrokes desired, you will need to set these correctly to get the OS to recognize the keys correctly. You might consider using the Input Simulator library, since it already does what you want and you don’t have to recreate the wheel. Just make sure … Read more
If notepad is already started, you should write: // import the function in your class [DllImport (“User32.dll”)] static extern int SetForegroundWindow(IntPtr point); //… Process p = Process.GetProcessesByName(“notepad”).FirstOrDefault(); if (p != null) { IntPtr h = p.MainWindowHandle; SetForegroundWindow(h); SendKeys.SendWait(“k”); } GetProcessesByName returns an array of processes, so you should get the first one (or find the … Read more
Alright, this is kind of disappointing I’m sure, but you fundamentally cannot do this with 100% reliability. Windows assumes that the active window is the one getting keyboard input. The proper way to fake keyboard input is with SendInput, and you’ll notice that it sends messages to the active window only. That being said, you … Read more
OK turns out what you really want is this: http://inputsimulator.codeplex.com/ Which has done all the hard work of exposing the Win32 SendInput methods to C#. This allows you to directly send the windows key. This is tested and works: InputSimulator.SimulateModifiedKeyStroke(VirtualKeyCode.LWIN, VirtualKeyCode.VK_E); Note however that in some cases you want to specifically send the key to … Read more
You can also clear the field before sending it keys. element.clear() element.sendKeys(“Some text here”)