Visual Basic's Sendkeys statement does not work beyond
XP. The only way that Visual Basic programers can send
keys under Vista or Win 7 is to use the Windows API,
SendInput function and that can mean a huge amount of
re-coding in applications originally written using the
VB Sendkeys statement. Fortunately, M8 can provide a
much easier solution.

Keysend.bas is a module which wraps SendInput into a
new sub Sendkey. Sendkey is a direct replacement for
the VB Sendkeys. To use it, all you have to do is add
the module to your project then replace "Sendkeys"
with "Sendkey" in your code. Sendkey interprets all
Sendkeys parameters without modification.

In addition to fixing Sendkeys problems under Vista,
Sendkey also includes the following features not
available in the VB Sendkeys:

1. It can send the PrtScr key
2. You can specify that numbers are from the numeric

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