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user264977
user264977

Reputation: 1

Send keystrokes from vbscript to a CMD window

I run a batch file as part of Windows XP startup which executes continuously until Windows closes. It calls a VBScript file, which executes SendKeys "+{ESC}" (Shift+Esc). This gets picked up by 4t Tray Minimiser to send the CMD window to the system tray. Most times it works, but occasionally the CMD window stays visible.

Upon searching, various posts seem to suggest the .VBS file is losing focus or it's a timing problem. Some suggest AppActivate but I can't work out how to achieve what I want. Even the examples given for AppActivate seem like a lot of work.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2942

Answers (1)

Ansgar Wiechers
Ansgar Wiechers

Reputation: 200523

Did you check the documentation? It's actually rather straightforward. You call AppActivate with the title (or part of the title) of the window you want to bring to the foreground, then run SendKeys to send keystrokes to the foreground window.

Set sh = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

sh.AppActivate "window title"
sh.SendKeys "+{Esc}"

Upvotes: 1

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