"Space Bar" and "Enter" (Return) keys stopped working in "Insert text" action

[Phillips Deutschm]

They no longer work when they are the last key of "insert text" action.  

They used to work fine for months. But in the past few days those 2 keys stopped working.

Is there anyway to fix this? 

[cw noway]

I am NOT AutoControl Support, just a guy trying to help.
 
 
 
Mine stopped working too, but here is a quick temporary "band aid" fix that will work.

Place a short pause (.03 seconds) before the "Space bar" and "Return Key" in the synthetic input.

That should hold you over for now.

See attached pic:  Insert Text_Spacebar_ReturnKey_Problem.png
 

 
Hope this helps. Either way, the AutoControl Support professionals will give you pin-point accurate instructions in the near future
 
Have a good day.

[AutoControl support]

Not able to reproduce the issue on Windows 7 and Windows 11 with Chrome 120.

The last new-line character is inserted correctly using the following action:

Please provide an exact sequence of steps to reproduce the issue.

[cw noway]

Excellent, that method works great. 

 

In addition, the initial issues listed by “Phillips Deutschm,” are no longer an issue.  The “spacebar” and the “return key” within a synthesized action block at the end of an “input text” sequence are both working again.

 

Thank you very much..

[Phillips Deutschm]

I misunderstood the issue. I was able to figure out what the issue was. 

Before the update, it seemed actions were executed in order as shown below.  (1 > 2 > 3)

Now all actions are executed simultaneously. 

A quick fix for me would be to link them all together (put 2 and 3 on the same line as 1)

But I can't find an action to open new tab. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks!

[AutoControl support]

Before the update, it seemed actions were executed in order as shown below.  (1 > 2 > 3)

This is precisely how action chains are executed, i.e from top to bottom.

 

Now all actions are executed simultaneously. 

We cannot reproduce this behavior using the settings file you provided. AutoControl's action system is designed to execute action chains in sequence, not simultaneously.

What is the behavior you observe upon pressing Ctrl+Shift+G ?

PS: The settings file you attached in the previous post is not exactly the same as the screenshot. Please make sure the settings you are sharing are exactly what you are using on your computer.

[Phillips Deutschm]

Thank you very much for your reply. 

I apologize for the delay. Please see the file. 

1,2,3 are still executed at the same time. 

[AutoControl support]

The result we observe after pressing Ctrl+Shift+G is this:

1. Three new tabs are open, each of them navigates to a different search results page.
2. If the content of the clipboard is "hello", then the URL of those 3 pages are:

• http://google.com/search?q=q+hello
• http://google.com/search?q=w+hello
• http://google.com/search?q=e+ hello

Do you see something different happening?

[Phillips Deutschm]

Thank you for your reply. 

I got 

• a new tab with q and space (enter key not pressed)
• a new tab with hello (enter key not pressed)
• http://google.com/search?q=w+ hello (enter key was pressed)

The band-aid solution I'm using is to separate the 3 lines to 3 sequences with just 1 line, and execute them separately. 

I notice that with this solution, if I execute the 3 separate sequences too quickly back to back, the same problem still happens.

Is there a way to add a delay between each command?  That would probably solve all the issues I'm having.

[AutoControl support]

You can use the "WAIT" action to add a short delay in between. See the attached file.