Transmitting Key Stokes for Fkeys

[Ekhart]

I have a code that transmits data to another program. The issue I am running in to is that one of the areas I need to enter data in to requires an odd keystroke to save and exit. This requires 'F1' followed by 'e'.
I have read up on this and it seems there is no easy way to do this since there is no ascii equivalent for the F# keys. Does anyone know of any sort of work around to have this go?
I am not looking to simply hotkey or anything like that since this is used on multiple machines.

[RuralGuy]

Would you post the code you are using to "transmit" data to another program, please?

[Ekhart]

I am using Reflection and transmitting:
With Reflection
.Transmit "^Consult Service Tracking"
.Transmit Chr(13)

What I need after this is some way to tell it to do F1 + e to save it.

[davegri]

That's Unix syntax. How does it relate to Access?

[John_G]

How does the other program accept the data you send to it? I would assume it is a character string, so you'll have to determine what character combination it uses to represent a function key (if it even can do that), since there is no ASCII code for it. This is not so much an MS Access issue as it is for the program you are sending the data to.

[Micron]

From what little I've read of the Pro version specs, it supports Microsoft OLE Automation so maybe the provider has a library type file you can use in Access.
Or dare I mention that SendKeys is capable of emulating a function key press...

[Missinglinq]

...since there is no ASCII code for it...

I have a chart of ASCII codes (no idea where I got it from...the file creation date is eight years ago) that gives the code for F1 as 112.

Linq ;0)>

[InsuranceGuy]

If by Reflection you mean Attachmate Reflection, there are codes for all function keys. Depending on what terminal, the codes may differ a bit. The easiest way I'd found do use Attachmate in the past was to look at the Keyboard Map in the Options menu. Whatever was indicated as the mapped value of a key I could transmit instead and achieve the same result. Mostly, F1 becomes <F1> or <Pf1> or similar. It's all in the Attachmate automation help files.

That said, this is not an Access question at all, even if you're using Access VBA to run your Reflection client. It's a question about Reflection.

Good luck.

[Ekhart]

Yes F1 is mapped to Pf1 in Reflection but I still need to transmit the keystroke of F1. If I use .transmit I can only get it to send the value (112 for example). I can try to create a macro for this in Reflection but need to figure out how to call it up from access.

[Micron]

After re-reading, it's not real clear on which way you're trying to send the keystroke. It ought to be from Access, otherwise I suppose you wouldn't be asking here. So did you try SendKeys or does the idea not appeal to you?