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Button with no hWnd

Good evening folks,
I'm building a simple application (A) that sends Strings to a textbox of another application (B). I was able to this step, but afterwards I'd like to automatically press a button placed just under the textbox. The problem is that I can't get the Handle of the Button; using "Window Detective"(similiar to Spy++), I see only the textboxes (called "TEdit", see the attachments) and no Buttons!. I'd like to add also that there's no only a Button but 3!! So, how could I press a specific Button? Is there another chance to get the Handle?
Program "target"
Window Detective screenshot

Based on the class name TEdit that's a VCL application probably coded in Delphi. The buttons are likely TSpeedButton and non-windowed. You won't be able to send them messages and they are not automatable.
Faced with this your best hope of success is to fake input. Fake the mouse click at the appropriate location on the form. It's not pretty but there's little option.

Find if TextBox.Text got changed by the user or by the code (Windows Phone 8)

I have a Windows Phone 8 project that converts values (i.e.: Celsius to Fahrenheit). There are two TextBox UI elements, one of which is read-only. The user can change the first TextBox to input the value to be converted. He can also press a button to "swap" the two TextBoxes so that he can do the reverse conversion. When the user presses the button, the value from the second TextBox goes into the first TextBox (and vice versa). But it's not the user who changed the value, it's the code who did.
I asked around (on IRC) and researched the subject, but I am a beginner and couldn't understand most of what I have found.
I heard that a simple solution would be to use Data Bindings. I researched the subject, and from what I read, Data Bindings can't solve my problem (correct me if I'm wrong).
I also tried to create a subclass of TextBox, hoping that I could hook in some custom event to it and go further in that direction. But I did not understand how to link the custom TextBox to the UI (in XAML). The way I created the subclass is to just create a new class and add TextBox as the parent. I know there is a template in VS to create a new User Control, and I tried it, but I couldn't understand what I was doing (or what I was supposed to do).
So I have two questions: Am I looking at the problem from the right angle? If yes, how do I create a custom TextBox and link it to the UI? If not, how could I solve my problem?

If your question is how to distinguish if the text got changed by the user or by the code then its simple.
Assuming that when the user types something you'd like to perform method A but when the code changes the text you'd like to perform method B:
In both cases you will need to override the TextBox.TextChanged() event handler.
You will also need a flag variable to tell you if the swap button was pressed or not.
The event handler should be something like this:
{
if (swap_pushed)
{
Method_B();
swap_pushed = false;
}
else
{
Method_A();
}
}
And finally your event handler for swap Button.Click() should be like this:
{
swap_pushed = true;
}

C# Programmatically send two keys when you are already pressing another one

I'm making my own multiple clipboard copy/paste tool which runs in background, and I've finally achieved it, it's working.
this is how it works,
when Capslock it's pressed, if I press CTRL+1 I make a CTRL+C programmatically ( with SendKeys) and save the clipboard on my list with correct position
when capslock it's not pressed, if I press CTRL+1 I make a CTRL+V programmatically ( with send keys) by using the latest data in clipboard on the correct list position.
Now it's fine, but I want to make a little change, I don't want to use capslock, but I want to press another key, like ALT or SHIFT, but if you keep pressing a key which is not the CTRL and then you do a CTRL+C, it does not work.
Anyone have any advice to this dumb thing?
Thanks guy

If you don't mind using WinApi functions, you can use RegisterHotKey and UnregisterHotKey functions.
They allow you to register and unregister global shortcuts of your choice. This way you'll get notified about a shortcut being pressed even if your application is running in background and doesn't have the focus on itself.
You can find more information about both functions on pinvoke here and here. There is even some sample application code so you can see how to use them.
NOTE: Remember to unregister all the shortcuts that you've registered on application exit.

You can use a flag for the select key. When you check to see what keys are pressed then:
something like the following pseudo code should do the trick:
if(select key)
{
this.selectKey = true;
}
else
{
if(ctrl key)
{
//do whatever you would normally do here
}
this.selectKey = false;
}

Need an example about console application which user can interact console window

I need write a console application like as hiren boot screen:
alt text http://xahoithongtin.com.vn/Images/diembao/2006_10/Hiren2.jpg
User can input a arrow key or a number for choosing. When a menu item is selected, I will fill a background for the selected menu item.
Please give me some guideline or example. Thanks.

The console class has all the core functionality you need.
To set the cursor to any desired position you can use the Console.CursorLeft or Console.CursorTop properties. A little example is already posted here.
For the colors you can use the Console.BackgroundColor and Console.ForegroundColor.
With these properties you should be able to write all this stuff onto the screen. Afterwards you need to check the user input (KeyUp, KeyDown pressed). This can be done by checking the result of Console.ReadKey() method. By setting the boolean paramter to true you can prevent that the pressed character is displayed on the screen itself.
With this base functionality you should be able to write your own helper class to make all this stuff a little more comfortable.

There are several .NET based NCurses libraries around that make creation of console based interfaces easier:
Curses#
MonoCurses
CursesSharp

how to identity a click out of the form and 1 more question

i want to build a simple program which help you selecting pictures.
if you have lot of picture and you want to choose some of them then you see them 1 by 1 and when you see a picture you would lik to save on other folder on your pcyou just press a button ,lets say f5 and the program copy the phtot from the path you looking at to the destiny folder.
for that program i need to ask how to know if someone pressed f5 out of the form area and how to know in which path the user looking at.(i want to build it for myself atm so if its help i look with microsoft office picture manager)
about the clicking i search a little and get something named global clicking and hooks which i dont understand so much and about identify the path i have no idea .
tyvm for help:)

I'm not sure I follow the rest -- but if you want to capture the keypress event, simply add an event handler for KeyPress and determine if the pressed key is equal to the F5 button by using the Keys constants.

Here is a project on Code Project that does exactly what you need :)
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/globalhook.aspx

The key press event wont work with the following (Link):
TAB
INSERT
DELETE
HOME
END
PAGE UP
PAGE DOWN
F1-F2
ALT
Arrow keys
Note: I think there is a typo on the page and the F1-F2 really should be F1-F12.
When you decide the key for your on key press event for the form area you are talking about it will look like this:
private void Form_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)
{
if(e.KeyChar == [keypressvalue])
{
//do your copy logic
}
}
[keypressvalue] will be the code for F5 if you choose to use this. I have found a mix of values for this (i could not get my test keypress event to pick up the F5 event, hence my note above) so i recommend running the event once with a brake point, inspecting the code, then brake and update your code, then test your logic.
Like the rest i'm not really sure what you want your custom logic to do.
Clairifcation: I'm trying to understand your question, so what you want is: When in Microsoft Picture Manager when you press F5 you want the image that is currently being viewed to be moved to a particular directory? Now if you are writing your own picture viewer and move software then i think we can help if it is the above i'm not really sure you can do that.