send message

I no nothing about api and iwas wondering how i oculd get a program o open an aol instant message window and how it put in the name box a name the the user has supplied on the form, then in the field for the body of the message it should put in the text teh the user has also input. Then i would like it to send. i have spy ++ but i have no idea how to use it or the send message function. Please help me

The way that I have done something like this was

runit = Shell("c:\windows\notepad.exe", 1)
SendKeys "Hello, I'm here"

If the form you're send data to has text boxes, you can send a tab to move between them using sendkeys.
Look at sendkeys under vbhelp.

Phillip