Re: How to send keys like Ctrl+C?

Joe

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Mar 19, 2015, 7:12:38 PM3/19/15

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Nice try; It might work that way if you used the right name for the
control key, but the normal way to do it is with special constants for
things like that. See:

https://code.google.com/p/autokey/wiki/SpecialKeys

What you want is:
keyboard.send_keys("<Ctrl>+C")

and take a look at the rest of the wiki which has code examples too.

Joe

On 03/16/2015 02:57 PM, Matthew Greenfield wrote:
> How can I force pressing Ctrl+C? What I mean by this is holding down
> Ctrl, then pressing C, then releasing both.
>
> I tried the following, but it didn't work
>
> keyboard.press_key("<control>")
> keyboard.press_key("c")
> keyboard.release_key("c")
> keyboard.release_key("<control>")
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Neeraj Hanumante

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Jul 20, 2015, 11:21:44 PM7/20/15

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Hi Joe,

I attempted the code as you mentioned, however, it ended up writing <Ctrl>+V etc. in the file (spreadsheet).

keyboard.send_key("<F2>") 
keyboard.send_keys("<Ctrl>+A")  
keyboard.send_keys("<Ctrl>+X") 
keyboard.send_key("<enter>")
keyboard.send_key("<up>") 
keyboard.send_key("<up>")
keyboard.send_key("<F2>")
keyboard.send_key("<END>")
keyboard.send_keys("<Ctrl>+V") 
keyboard.send_key("<enter>")

What I am trying to do here is assigning hotkey to the action of joining the long text data in from source cell (e.g. D4) to destination cell (e.g. D3).
Kindly point out my mistake/s.

Regards,
Neeraj

Joe

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Jul 21, 2015, 5:05:08 PM7/21/15

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I can't see your actual macro code from your email (Please include it in
your next reply)., but I'll assume you did it correctly. So the next
thing we need is more documentation of the problem including a trace.
See boilerplate below.

Joe

Standard reply to all such questions:

FAQ #1: When AutoKey does something unfortunate, document your problem
by specifying:
exactly what you did,
what it did,
what you expected it to do,
*and*
providing us with a trace log and a description of:

your OS/version
desktop manager/version
AutoKey version

and anything else you think might be relevant.

Quit AutoKey if it is currently running.

Start AutoKey from a terminal window.
Then, do the minimum required to recreate your issue and then stop AutoKey.

autokey-gtk -l
or
autokey-qt -l

depending on which version of autokey you have installed. That's a lower
case "ell".

This will produce a log in the terminal window of what AutoKey is doing.

It will probably show you what is wrong.

If it doesn't make sense or you have further questions, copy and paste
the log output from the terminal window into a post to this list and
we'll take a look at it.

Joe

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