Sending commands to VFW dialogue

[Steve1234]

Hello,

I am writing small program to collect images from a webam primarily in VB using a VB wrapper for the VFW interface.

What I would like to do is to get my program to directly modify settings of the camera. I can use the show source dialogue method to display the window with the settings in but need away of changing them.

I guess I could work out the sequence of key presses that would be required to achieve this.

Can someone please point me in the right direction of a windows function that will send key presses to another window. Also the VB code stops execution when the show source dialogue is shown. How do I keep VB running to send commands to the dialogue window.

I am quite prepared to do some reading but need to know what to read!!!

Thanks

Steve