Sendkeys Taboo Question

[Jaye7]

I know that sendkeys are very taboo, many are for it and many are against it.

Anyway, I want to use them and therefore this question, does anyone have a sendkeys script that can select a specific tab in Internet Explorer, i.e. I have 10 tabs open and I want to select tab 2.

Also a sendkeys script to select an input box on the tab.

Thanks

 

[bensonsearch]

Hi,
send keys is a funny thing, you would need to use the windows shortcuts (tab + ctrl) to change the tab, but can not specify which one.

 

[Norie]

Jaye

I don't think I've ever seen anyone 'pro' SendKeys.

Sometimes they are used as a last resort though.

In your case they might not be needed, perhaps you can explain further what you are doing.

 

[bensonsearch]

sendkeys is soooo unreliable and very fickle (it uses the active screen to send keys to, sometimes wont send or wait for the application to load etc)

usually there is better ways of doing things things thou. as above a more detailed explanation will help us more to help you

 

[Jaye7]

I found the solution to selecting the tab that I want.

SendKeys ("^{1}") ' change 1 to 2 etc...

I don't really need the input box script now as this solves my problem.

Sendkeys works fine for this as I activate Internet Explorer before using the script.

Thanks for replying anyway.