You can’t change the character or key associated with a key event, or fully simulate a key event. However, you can handle the keypress yourself and manually insert the character you want at the current insertion point/caret. I’ve provided code to do this in a number of places on Stack Overflow. For a contenteditable element: … Read more
One more solution (in Java, because you didn’t tell us your language – but it works the same way in all languages with Keys class): String selectAll = Keys.chord(Keys.CONTROL, “a”); driver.findElement(By.whatever(“anything”)).sendKeys(selectAll); You can use this to select the whole text in an <input>, or on the whole page (just find the html element and send … Read more
The function below, GetCharFromKey(Key key) will do the trick. It uses a series of win32 calls to decode the key pressed: get the virtual key from WPF key get the scan code from the virtual key get your unicode character This old post describes it in a bit more detail. public enum MapType : uint … Read more
You’ll have to use a setTimeout (like you are) but also store the reference so you can keep resetting the limit. Something like: // // $(‘#element’).donetyping(callback[, timeout=1000]) // Fires callback when a user has finished typing. This is determined by the time elapsed // since the last keystroke and timeout parameter or the blur event–whichever … Read more
This is what I ended up using. Much cleaner. #include <CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.h> #include <Carbon/Carbon.h> /* For kVK_ constants, and TIS functions. */ /* Returns string representation of key, if it is printable. * Ownership follows the Create Rule; that is, it is the caller’s * responsibility to release the returned object. */ CFStringRef createStringForKey(CGKeyCode keyCode) { … Read more
KeyPress event is invoked only for character (printable) keys, KeyDown event is raised for all including nonprintable such as Control, Shift, Alt, BackSpace, etc. UPDATE: The keypress event is fired when a key is pressed down and that key normally produces a character value Reference.
Another approach (no plugin needed) is to just use .ctrlKey property of the event object that gets passed in. It indicates if Ctrl was pressed at the time of the event, like this: $(document).keypress(“c”,function(e) { if(e.ctrlKey) alert(“Ctrl+C was pressed!!”); });
Install the pywin32 extensions. Then you can do the following: import win32com.client as comclt wsh= comclt.Dispatch(“WScript.Shell”) wsh.AppActivate(“Notepad”) # select another application wsh.SendKeys(“a”) # send the keys you want Search for documentation of the WScript.Shell object (I believe installed by default in all Windows XP installations). You can start here, perhaps. EDIT: Sending F11 import win32com.client … Read more
I would use @HostListener decorator within your component: import { HostListener } from ‘@angular/core’; @Component({ … }) export class AppComponent { @HostListener(‘document:keypress’, [‘$event’]) handleKeyboardEvent(event: KeyboardEvent) { this.key = event.key; } } There are also other options like: host property within @Component decorator Angular recommends using @HostListener decorator over host property https://angular.io/guide/styleguide#style-06-03 @Component({ … host: { … Read more
I just had the same problem trying to simulate keypresses in Half-Life 2. As Robin said, the solution is to use ScanCodes instead of VKs. I edited your last code example such that it uses ScanCodes. I tried it with Half-Life 2 and it works just fine: import ctypes import time SendInput = ctypes.windll.user32.SendInput # … Read more