 |  |  | Home Search What's New Index Books Links Q & A Newsletter Banners Feedback Tip Jar   |  |  |  | | |  | | | | MSDN Visual Basic Community | | |  | | |  | | | | | | | Title | Simulate Alt-Tab in Visual Basic 6 |
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| Description | This example shows how to simulate Alt-Tab in Visual Basic 6. That moves focus to the next application running. |
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| Keywords | Alt-Tab, simulate, Visual Basic 6, keyboard, keybd_event |
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| Categories | Miscellany, Software Engineering, API |
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| | The following code uses the keybd_eventj API function to simulate pressing the Alt key, pressing the Tab key, and releasing the Alt key. | | Private Declare Sub keybd_event Lib "user32" (ByVal bVk As _ Byte, ByVal bScan As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long, ByVal _ dwExtraInfo As Long) Private Const KEYEVENTF_KEYUP = &H2 Private Const VK_ALT = &H12 Private Const VK_TAB = &H9 ' Grab all of the text in the WebBrowser control. Private Sub Command1_Click() ' Press Alt. keybd_event VK_ALT, 0, 0, 0 DoEvents ' Press Tab. keybd_event VK_TAB, 1, 0, 0 DoEvents ' Release Alt. keybd_event VK_ALT, 0, KEYEVENTF_KEYUP, 0 DoEvents End Sub |  | |
