How to send Ctrl/Shift/Alt + Key combinations to an application window? (via SendMessage)

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Published on 2012-11-02T17:36:46Z Indexed on 2012/11/17 11:04 UTC
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I can successfully send any single key message to an application, but don't know how to send combinations of keys (like Ctrl+F12, Shift+F1, Ctrl+R, etc..)

Tired doing this that way:

SendMessage(handle, WM_KEYDOWN, Keys.Control, 0);
SendMessage(handle, WM_KEYDOWN, Keys.F12, 0);
SendMessage(handle, WM_KEYUP, Keys.F12, 0);
SendMessage(handle, WM_KEYUP, Keys.Control, 0);

but this doen not seems to work.. (application act like only F12 is pressed, not Ctrl+F12)..

Any ideas how to make this work?

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