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Sending Keystrokes
- Alternative Keystrokes for Ctrl-Shift-Tab
- Capturing Dialog Box Information
- Check a Checkbox by Default
- Copying Excel Fields with CRs into Clipboard
- Holding Down Shift Key plus Downarrow
- How to Make SendKey Wait
- IgnoreInput is Ignoring SendKey
- Interaction with Multiple Users in XP
- Keystrokes to Close an Excel Child Window
- Locked Workstation SendKey and Mouse Problem Explained
- Pacing Problems and Process Control
- Perfectly match a window title
- Problem Sending a Dash Character
- Problems Sending Keystrokes to Adobe Photoshop
- Reading Buttons and Child Windows
- Remote Desktop and WinBatch
- Remote Desktop Connections and WinBatch
- Send Fn key on a Notebook
- Send Keys to DOS Apps Considerations
- Sending CTRL and Ctrl-Alt-Del Keys
- Sending ENTER Key from one WBT to a Second WBT
- Sending Filename that Contains a Tilde
- Sending Keystrokes to 16bit Apps from 32bit
- Sending Keystrokes to Locked Workstations
- Sending Keystrokes to Tabbed Dialogs
- Sending Keystrokes to Win and DOS apps
- Sending Keystrokes with Special Characters
- Sending Quotation Marks
- Sending Unicode Keystrokes
- SendKey Alt Tab on Windows 7 Ignored
- Sendkey and Debug Function
- SendKey for Special Key Stroke
- SendKey Issue with GoToMyPc
- Sendkey Plus on Numeric Keyboard
- Sendkey to Console Emulator Window
- Sendkey to Different Region Keyboard
- SendKey with ALT Character Not Working
- Sendkeys and Java
- Sendkeys and Winzip Example
- SendKeys from a Service
- Sendkeysto Slow or Not Working Sometimes
- Slow Sendkey and-or Process Control
- Speeding SendKey Up
- Strange 15 Second Delay in Processing
- Using Sendkey with Variables
- Virtual Machine and SendKey
- Windows Keys with SendKey
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Example of Getting Sendkeys and SendkeysChild Working
Keywords: Sendkeys SendkeysChild WinExistChild
Attached below is a snippet of code from installing WinZip, this is a good example of what to write. You might also want to look up the WinWaitExist and WinWaitChild functions.
: CODE STARTS HERE
;Installation of WinZip
Run("g:\pkware\winzip.exe","")
While !WinExistChild("WinZip Self","&Unzip")
TimeDelay(1)
EndWhile
SendKeysChild("WinZip Self","&Unzip","!u")
While !WinExistChild("WinZip Self","OK")
TimeDelay(1)
EndWhile
SendKeysChild("WinZip Self","OK","{SPACE}")
While !WinExistChild("WinZip Setup","Setup will")
TimeDelay(1)
EndWhile
SendKeysChild("WinZip Setup","Setup will","{ENTER}")
While !WinExistChild("WinZip Setup","Thank you")
TimeDelay(1)
EndWhile
SendKeysChild("WinZip Setup","Thank you","!n")
While !WinExistChild("License Agreement","&View License")
TimeDelay(1)
EndWhile
SendKeysChild("License Agreement","&View License","!y")
While !WinExistChild("WinZip Setup","&WinZip Classic")
TimeDelay(1)
EndWhile
SendKeysChild("WinZip Setup","&WinZip Classic","!c!n")
While !WinExistChild("WinZip Setup","&Express setup")
TimeDelay(1)
EndWhile
SendKeysChild("WinZip Setup","&Express setup","!e!n")
While !WinExistChild("WinZip Setup","Installation is complete")
TimeDelay(1)
EndWhile
SendKeysChild("WinZip Setup","Installation is complete","{ENTER}")
While !WinExistChild("WinZip","extract")
TimeDelay(1)
EndWhile
if WinExist("WinZip") == @TRUE then WinClose("WinZip")
While WinExistChild("WinZip","extract")
TimeDelay(1)
EndWhile
if WinExist("WinZip") == @TRUE then WinClose("WinZip")
RunWait("deltree.exe","/y c:\winzip")
: CODE ENDS HERE
Article ID: W13841
Filename: Sendkeys and Winzip Example.txt
File Created: 1999:04:15:16:56:44
Last Updated: 1999:04:15:16:56:44