SendKeys.send format to send Ctrl-C = SendKeys.Send("^(C)"); ?

Cos I got the right window but nothing is copied to the Clipboard altho text is highlighted! Here is a little snippet from the method:
But it doesn't? Any ideas why as the correct windows get highlighted?
Your knowledge and experience will be greatly appreciated, cheers.

Don't try to do it through keystroke trickery. Just use the clipboard class and send what you want to the clipboard.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...clipboard.aspx

Hi tlhintoq, yes and that's what I'm trying to do. Get the other app to utilise the clipboard to copy the highlighted text! If I go ctrl-C then hit the hotkey it works fine but I can't seem to send the ctrl-c keypresses to the foremost window to simulate the copy to clipboard command, any idea why?

"The other app" ?

So you're not trying to have your application send to the clipboard...
You're trying to programmatically control someone else's application, and make it think a user has pressed control-c.

Does that sound like a correct clarification?

My first guess is that the *window* has nothing to send to the clipboard.
But maybe a control *in* the window does. Forms don't generally have any content to go to the clipboard, but a textbox for example has a .Text property that has text that can go on the clipboard.

Almost correct but I am trying to modify the selected text as per the user's request via a hotkey. Much like wordweb can access anything you have highlighted anywhere but it does not seem to be getting the ctrl-c sequence?The theory being that if I send ctrl-c to the user's current window it would automatically copy the highlighted text in the foreground window to the clipboard so my app can then work on it. Am I sending the correct string to SendKeys? If I am then the problem must lie elsewhere, right?

Yah got me. Make a quickie Forms app of your own with a text box to test it against. That way you can debug both ends of the process. When your test app receives a keypress then it can tell you want it got and so on.

Otherwise you are shooting an arrow at a target - in the dark.

Cheers tlhintoq. Thanks for your help again.