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Windows service sending keypress to dialog??

Hello everyone -

I need to create a windows service that will watch for
a specific dialog, and when found, send a keypress
to the dialog.

I have the service working, but when it tries to find the
window (dialog) it always comes back with zero.

Now - in my test application (not service) it runs fine....

Does a service lack the ability to send keypresses to a dialog??

[DllImport("USER32.DLL", SetLastError=true)]
public static extern IntPtr FindWindow(string lpClassName, string
lpWindowName);

IntPtr XXXErrorWindowHandle = FindWindow(null, "XXX");
while (done == false)
{
if (XXXErrorWindowHandle != IntPtr.Zero)
{
SetForegroundWindow(XXXErrorWindowHandle);
SendKeys.SendWait("~");
ReturnStatus = true;
}
done = (XXXWindowHandle == IntPtr.Zero);
}

thanks
tony
Nov 17 '05 #1
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