ControlSend not sending shift characters even when told so

[tom13]

Hi,

I'm sending the following code to the game called World of Warcraft:

ControlSend("World of Warcraft", "", 0, "/script AcceptBattlefieldPort(1,1);")

It should send

/script AcceptBattlefieldPort(1,1);

but instead it sends

/script acceptbattlefieldport91,10;

It is told to use shift etc (as thats the default option for ControlSend), but it doesn't seem to do so.

Any help?

[picaxe]

Try the raw flag

ControlSend("World of Warcraft", "", 0, "/script AcceptBattlefieldPort(1,1);", 1)

[tom13]

Try the raw flag

ControlSend("World of Warcraft", "", 0, "/script AcceptBattlefieldPort(1,1);", 1)oÝ÷ Ûú®¢×®'¶­nr@r¶°k(!ø«²Ð¶+Úµëa{§vÛ¬y'§v)ìµæ×hzÌ(®Fî´Ø­¶Ü!W¦x¦7jëh×6Send("/script AcceptBattlefieldPort(1,1);")

Maybe its the game that prefents it from working? If so, Any way to fix that?

[picaxe]

I've had similar issues where Send works but not ControlSend. What about ControlSetText

[tom13]

I've had similar issues where Send works but not ControlSend. What about ControlSetText

Tried that also, what it does is editing the window title... weird eh?

[tom13]

i found a working fix:

#include <string.au3>
Opt("SendKeyDelay", 10)
Opt("SendKeyDownDelay", 10)
$hex = _StringToHex("/script AcceptBattlefieldPort(1,1);")
ControlSend("World of Warcraft", "", "", _HexToString($Hex))

[Zedna]

Look here for reason of these Shift problems.

If you use some national keyboards (like Czech) you may have problems with Shift/Caps.

It's unsolved in AutoIt.

Edited November 24, 2007 by Zedna

[picaxe]

Thanks for the info Zedna and Tom13. Looks like there are many post on this controlsend "sticky shift key" issue. AutoIt help does warn

ControlSend is only unreliable for command prompts as that works differently to normal windows (seems to check physical states rather than accepting the keystroke messages). For normal windows ControlSend should be way more reliable than a normal Send - and yes it does send shift, ctrl, alt etc.

The problem is intermittent, it can go away after a reboot. Also if you type "shift" and a character in a command window or notepad window or in the start, run inputbox, this can temporarily remove the sticking shiftdown. Now for some reason I can't reproduce it.