Thread: WM_KEYDOWN and SendMessage

Hello,

I have got a problem with WM_KEYDOWN and SendMessage(). I'm trying to send an upper case 't' ('T') to an edit field using the following function call:
SendMessage(hwnd, WM_KEYDOWN, VkKeyScan('T'), NULL)

The problem now is, that the target input field only prints a lower case 't'.
Question: How can I get the input field to print an upper case 't' ('T') using SendMessage() and WM_KEYDOWN? I thought of sending a WM_KEYDOWN message equal to a SHIFT-T keystroke, but I don't know how to do that. Got any ideas?

Thanks in advance for your answers

Send a WM_KEYDOWN for the shift key. Then the message for the t key. Then, the WM_KEYUP for the t key. Then for the shift key.

Ok, sorry to ask, but how exactly do I do this?
I tried...

Code:

SendMessage(hwnd, WM_KEYDOWN, VK_SHIFT, NULL);
SendMessage(hwnd, WM_KEYDOWN, VK_T, NULL);
SendMessage(hwnd, WM_KEYUP, VK_T, NULL);
SendMessage(hwnd, WM_KEYUP, VK_SHIFT, NULL);

and...

Code:

SendMessage(hwnd, WM_KEYDOWN, VK_SHIFT, MAKELPARAM(MAKEWORD(1,0), MAKEWORD(0, 64)));
SendMessage(hwnd, WM_KEYDOWN, VK_T, MAKELPARAM(MAKEWORD(1,0), MAKEWORD(0, 64)));
SendMessage(hwnd, WM_KEYUP, VK_T, NULL);
SendMessage(hwnd, WM_KEYUP, VK_SHIFT, NULL);

Both didn't work. VK_T is defined as 0x54 and VK_SHIFT as 0x10.

Forgot to mention, the last two tries still produced a lower case 't'.