Vista - Inserting a string into an application

>I've never used MS Office, but I'm guessing that you're
talking about the Word object model. (It helps if you
explain things. Don't assume that everyone uses MS
Office, or that everyone uses AutoIt, for that matter.)

VBA is the language used in MS Office automation.
The Word object model is an application of that language
that's only relevant within MS Word. In the same way, you
can use document.write from vbscript running in a webpage
inside IE. But document.write is not VBS. It's part of the IE
document object model. The document object and other
IE DOM scripting objects are only available in a webpage
loaded in IE.
whatIf you try the script I posted you'll see that it
opens Notepad, writes text to Notepad, then saves
it as a file. The part that writes the text into the
Notepad window is very simple:

sh.SendKeys "this text is pasted."

The difference is that you're putting text on the
clipboard and then doing Ctrl + V with Sendkeys,
while the sample I posted is simply sending all of
the keys to write the text directly.

(Ctrl + V is another assumption you're making.
It's a standard Paste hotkey in Word and in
many other programs, but it's not guaranteed to
be universal.)

It gets tricky doing what you want to do. Programs
are not intended or designed to be able to control
each other, and with each version of Windows Microsoft
has reduced the options to do so for security reasons,
so any way you find to write text into the window of a
different running process is basically a hack that you'd
be better off accomplishing in some other way if possible.
It might not always work. But if your AutoIt method is
working then a simple SendKeys should work without
needing the clipboard:

s = "text to be pasted"
oWSH.SendKeys s

That works for me, but I don't know whether there
might be a limit in terms of the number of characters
you can send.

Larry wrote:methodwhatYour request is lacking some important details. From your code above, you
are using AutoIt to capture sText to the clipboard, but then it uses
SendKeys to paste it. Since the sText string is already created in the
vbscript, the capture to clipboard is a wasted step. Why don't you just use
SendKeys to paste sText directly to the app?

Set oWSH = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
oWSH.SendKeys sText

If you still need further assistance, post details of what you are trying to
do and why, not how you think it should be done.

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Larry wrote:intoYes.

oWSH.SendKeys sText

Note, because some characters have special meaning, you may need to replace
them with appropriate substitutes. i.e. +,^,%,~ and brackets {,},[,]

The following will replace + characters with {+} so they will not be
interpreted as {shift} when sent.

sText = Replace(sText, "+", "{+}")

Similar sequence would be used for other special characters. Read up on
SendKeys method for further details.

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Yes, this works, it's as simple as that:

Set oWSH = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
oWSH.SendKeys sText

The only drawback is, when using this to insert the string into the editing
window of a blog, the test is "typed," appearing slowly, rather than
appearing all at once. Yet in other applications, like Word or Notepad, it
appears instantanously. However, that may just be a problem with my
computer.

Thanks for this.
Larry

Larry wrote:No, it doesn't. The Word application might provide that method, but it is
nothing that is supplied by VBA on its own.
There isn't. Each application has its own methods and properties for
handling input and output.

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Bob Barrows wrote:
But there is, as another poster, Todd Vargo, has already shown me. And it's
something very simple:

Set oWSH = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
oWSH.SendKeys sText

By the way, this is not the first time this has happened at this group. On a
couple of occasions I've asked if there was a way to do something very basic
using a .vbs file (like copying the selection in the active window), and
several people would tell me, no, there isn't, but then another poster comes
along and shows me how to do it, and it's very simple.

I think the reason this happens is that the things I use .vbs files for are
so basic and kindergarten level that they haven't occurred to advanced
users. :-)

Larry

"Larry" <larry328NOSPAM@xxxxxx> wrote

Perhaps, but it could be all in the way the question is asked. For example,
the title of this thread. What you asked for isn't what you wanted. You wanted
to input a string to another application, you asked how to insert a string into
another application. Two very different things, depending on perspective....

LFS

> Perhaps, but it could be all in the way the question is asked. For
example,wantedintoperspective....I'm embarrassed to say, but I don't know the difference. Whether it's
inserting it or inputting it, is all the same to me. I wanted to stick that
string into the active window without using the Clipboard.

Larry wrote:Sendkeys is not what comes to mind whenthe question of inserting something
comes up ... sorry.
Plus, I have a deeply ingrained aversion to Sendkeys, which I'm sure you
will develop as well once you start getting bitten in the behind by all its
associated problems ... ;-)

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>abasiccomesareI was the first to respond and gave you
the method you were looking for in that post.
But you didn't see it until it was presented in
a simpler form that you didn't have to think
about.

The problem is not that you're at kindergarten
level, but that you *want* to be at kindergarten
level -- looking for just the bit you need right now,
and avoiding the work of trying to understand more.

Bob Barrows and I both tried to explain a bit about
the landscape, to clarify your misunderstanding about
what's VBScript and what's an object, so that you could
get your answer *and* understand it. But you weren't
interested in that.

If you always approach it that way then you won't
know any more a year from now than you do now, and
you'll still be wondering why it's so hard to get an
answer.

Sorry if that sounds harsh, but this is a discussion group,
not a service, and it's also frustrating and timewasting for
people trying to help if you don't make an effort.