Send a line of text ot whaterve program is open

[MikeShevchik]

Send a line of text ot whaterve program is open, Ive tried the following:

Send("{SHIFTDOWN}t{SHIFTUP}his{SPACE}is{SPACE}a{SPACE}test")

But nothig is typed into the text box on a form

[Jos]

Works fine here.... are you sure the intended program has the focus at the time your script runs?

Edited May 9, 2010 by Jos

[MikeShevchik]

Here are the steps I take to run the script

1) start notepad

2) click on the Autoit sript I want to run

Nothing is typed into notepad

[hawky358]

The Send() command "sends" to the active window i.e. it simulates typing on the keyboard so you have to activate the window first

Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)
WinActivate("Note")
Send("{SHIFTDOWN}t{SHIFTUP}his{SPACE}is{SPACE}a{SPACE}test")

[hawky358]

Also I don't know if you have a reason for typing the shifts etc.

but you can just use

Send("This is a test")

[MikeShevchik]

What I want to do is be able to goto any web page position the cursor and the run a scritpt, in order to be able to fill in the blanks on lets say a name and address. I dont know in advance what web page is active or what browser that may be active.

[hawky358]

Rather use a hotkey then.

Have the script run in the background and when you select the box you press the appropriate hotkey.

Just don't make the hotkey conflict with another program's hotkey

ex: (the hotkey is Ctrl+1)

HotKeySet ("^1","type")

while 1
    sleep(15)
WEnd


Func type()
    Send("This is a test")
EndFunc

Edited May 9, 2010 by hawky358

[MikeShevchik]

Thanks I'll try this