Can I send a ctrl-C (SIGINT) to an application on Windows?

Question

I have (in the past) written cross-platform (Windows/Unix) applications which, when started from the command line, handled a user-typed Ctrl-C combinat

Answer 1

A friend of mine suggested a complete different way of solving the problem and it worked for me. Use a vbscript like below. It starts and application, let it run for 7 seconds and close it using ctrl+c.

'VBScript Example

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

WshShell.Run "notepad.exe"

WshShell.AppActivate "notepad"

WScript.Sleep 7000

WshShell.SendKeys "^C"