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gerire

Im developing a touchscreen based application with which I want to use the Microsoft on-screen keyboard osk.exe. I need it to show on pressing of a command button but it wont call it at all. Any ideas? I have this strange feeling im looking too deep and this is a simple problem and I cant figure it out,

Any help appreciated
Ger

str8_away

what command are you using to call osk.exe?

Evil Phil

This works on Win2k with vb6 for me.

Shell "C:\WINNT\system32\osk.exe", vbNormalFocus

Failing that use the ShellExecute API call

Talliesin

Originally posted by Evil Phil
This works on Win2k with vb6 for me.

Shell "C:\WINNT\system32\osk.exe", vbNormalFocus

Failing that use the ShellExecute API call

Shell or the ShellExecute API should both work. You can't rely on the systems directory being called C:\WINNT\ system32 though. No worries though, since that directory (whatever it is called on a given machine) will be in the PATH system variable, so the following should do the trick:

Shell "osk.exe", vbNormalFocus

gerire

I tried Shell earlier and it didn't work, must have been a syntax mix up on my part.

Cheers guys this line works perfectly. It was really wrecking my head. Thanks again
Ger