Force mouse click like Sendkeys

[Guest]

Can a mouse click be forced on a section of the active window. (like Sendkeys).

 

[Allen Browne]

Not really, but if you are trying to simulate something like the clicking of
a command button, you can fire the event with something like this:
Call MyCommandButton_Click()

 

[Guest]

If only it was that simple. I'd have to make the call from a subform to the
parent.
At the moment I place the focus on the button and sendkeys a space. Which
works but dos'nt seem RIGHT.
Thanks

 

[Allen Browne]

You can call the procedure on the parent form.

Remove the Private keyword from the front of the declaration for the
button's event in the main form's, i.e. from this line:
Private Sub MyCommandButton_Click()

Then in the subform, try:
Me.Parent.MyCommandButton_Click
or:
Form_Form1.MyCommandButton_Click
where "Form1" represents the name of your main form.

 

[Guest]

Can a mouse click be forced on a section of the active window. (like Sendkeys).

If you want to click a Button, you can call the button.PerformClick()
method. If you want to click a different Control, you can create a Click
handler for that Control and simply call the click handler directly.

However, if you want to click the mouse in an arbitrary location (i.e., not
on a control) you can use the User32 SendInput function to send a MOUSEINPUT
structure with the appropriate mouse click.

Or if you want to avoid messing with the platform invoke required to call
SendInput, we offer a .NET component FREE for non-commercial use that will
handle all of this for you:

http://www.mini-tools.com/goto/input