Question Sendkeys Problem for sendKey to Password field on a second form

[catdance]

I have created my own virtural keyboard for a touch screen interface. I used two forms,one for the main program and one for my keyboard so the keyboard will have opacity of 90%.
in my main program form's login screen, i have two textboxs, one for username one for password. the password is a textbox with UseSystemPasswordChar property set to True.

I used the technique descripted here:
How to: Simulate Mouse and Keyboard Events in Code
to send a keycode to different form window.

1. get window handler using FindWindow()
2. set main program form as focused window by SetForgoundWindow()
3. then sendkeys.send(keycodes)


it worked perfectly when i try to input letters to the username by the virtual keyboard, but it not really working for the password textbox.
Strange
when i set the password textbox 's UseSystemPasswordChar to False
again it worked.

Why why why why?


if i put my virtual keyboard as one of the controls of my main program form it also works but i then don't have the opacity property for my keyboard. of course, in this case the Findwindow() and setforgroundwindow() is not needed.

 

[catdance]

jesus, i ve spent five hours on this, and the solution was just to change the order of two lines of codes.

the original one was show the perssed key first and then sendkeys.
and the solution is sendkeys then show pressed key.

 

[JohnH]

theform.thetextbox.Text = "pass"