Desktop.SendKeys (gb.desktop)
Static Sub SendKeys ( Keys As String )
Send fake keyboard events to the window having the focus.
Keys is the list of keys that are sent successively.
Each key name must be enclosed between '[' and ']', but you can send any ASCII or LATIN-1 character as is.
You can send the '\n' character for the RETURN key, and the '\t' for the TAB key.
All key names are defined in the /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h X11 header file.
To get a key name, you must remove the XK_ prefix from the constants defined in the keysymdef.h file.
Moreover, these key names are now case sensitive, and they are not always consistent:
for example, Return with the first letter in uppercase, but space with all letters in lowercase.
If several keys must be pressed simultaneously, they must be enclosed between '{' and '}'.
To send the '{' ASCII character, use '{{}'.
What is sent is not a string, but the internal key codes associated with them. Hopefully, this
function automatically takes care of sending the needed modifiers before sending an ASCII character.
Examples
To send a new line, you can do:
or
Desktop.SendKeys("[Return]")
To send the string "Gambas Almost Means BASic", you can do:
Desktop.SendKeys("Gambas Almost Means BASic")
What is done behind the scene is the following:
Desktop.SendKeys("{[Shift_L]g}ambas {[Shift_L]a}lmost {[Shift_L]m}eans {[Shift_L]b}{[Shift_L]a}{[Shift_L]s}ic")