Try looking at keybd_event. You could also construct the WM_KEYDOWN/WM_KEYUP
messages yourself and use SendMessage. See the Windows API help on
WM_KEYDOWN.

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> This is not an install issue. You will greatly enhance your chances of getting > an answer by asking in the single most appropriate group. In this case that is

> probably borland.public.delphi.winapi.
>
> Alexander Gerhards wrote:
> >
> > "
> > Hello,
> >
> > I want to simulate a keypress-event for an application. The background is
> > to get keyboard on crt build of buttons for use on a touchscreen system
> > without any
> > hardware-keyboard.
> >
> > My idea is to simulate a keypress-event. So I desided to use the
> > keypress-procedure of TWinControl which generates an OnKeyPress event.
> >
> > Is it possible to read the first Char of TButton.Caption and send it via
> > keypress-event to a TEdit.text. My idea is to
> >
> > procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender : TObject);
> > VAR myChar : Char;
> > begin
> >   if (Sender is TButton) then begin
> >     Edit1.setFocus;
> >     myChar := (Sender as TButton).Caption[1];
> >
> >     KeyPress(myChar);   { ???????? }
> >
> >   end;
> > end;
> >
> > Has anyone an idea for this problem????? Thanks a lot!
> >
> > Alex
>
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