Sending Keys vb.net 2010

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For Each p As Process In Process.GetProcessesByName("notepad")
    AppActivate(p.Id)
    My.Computer.Keyboard.SendKeys("%of", True)
    Me.BringToFront()
Next

I can open notpad font window using sendkeys.
But How to change values of notepad font box using sendkeys???

Posted 18-Apr-13 1:47am

Rohit Ramachandaran

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Apr-13 0:53am

Why doing so? This is a total abuse. It's millions times better to put a decent editor control in your application than using Notepad which is not designed to be controlled by your application.
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Johnny J. · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-18T02:21:00

You have to send the keys to open the font dialog first. On my Swedish computer it's "Alt + t" to open the format menu, then "Alt + t" to open the font dialog. Then a third "Alt + t" to access the font name box, and then the font name to change it. (You need to check on your own computer what the combination is by holding down the Alt key and noticing what character that is underlined in the menus and controls)

Then of course you have to close the dialog afterwards (Enter, I think).

Of course, there's no guarantee that this is going to work all the time if the user or another program removes focus from Notepad.

Also, you might have to execute a sleep between each key combination to give the program time to react.

The only way is to experiment, but when that is said, I really don't understand what it is you're trying to achieve by this...

It will be all but impossible to create a solution that will work on all Windows languages.