I am reading AutoIt Your Quick Guide but still not sure how to actually implemented it.
My setting, a opened notpad waiting for input.
What I want to do is to have a while loop and continue press a keystroke (e.g. keycode 20, #3 key, or multiple keystrokes) in a random period to that opened notepad.
How do I do it? I know send a keypress is using function Send ( "keys" [, flag = 0] ) But there is no number key reference in the book, and how do I tell the autoit to send keystroke to the specific program (notepad, in my example)
How I connect these all together?
Thanks for your help.
Look at ControlSend() in the help file, there is a Notepad example for you to decipher. Send() is a little unpredictable when you wish to send keystrokes to a particular window, as AutoIt simulates the keystrokes and thus if another window takes focus during the loop, then this will receive the keys.
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I want to create a function on the Arduino and put it in all the loops in my program such that whenever during use, the user can press the "Esc" key on the keyboard to cancel what it is currently doing. A serial monitor is being used with my current code.
My entire code is very long which is why I don't have it posted, but if you can answer the situation i described above, I will be able to implement it. You can imagine a simple loop running forever that will exit anytime the "Esc" key is pressed.
I've created a keyboard-like with v-usb. I wonder if it's possible to send special command like on my Logitech keyboard to open Calc, increase/decrease volume, shutdown PC, etc.
It ought to be achievable. First you may need to pretend to be a Logitech keyboard, in the event that certain scan codes are only acted on if the keyboard type matches.
Second, you would need to find out what the scan code is for those keys. You might get help at Scan Codes Demystified and USB IDs.
Would really like to retrieve the entire line as it is typed before it is submitted so checks can be run before the user adds a line break? How would one accomplish this?
Thank you for reading.
You can archive this by setting stdin.lineMode to false. In that case you get a stream event for every character typed instead of only one per line. If you want to handle the outputing of the entered character on your own, you can also disable stdin.echoMode. In that case you have to pring the entered characters on your own. You have to enable it again after your program exits, otherwise the terminal stays in that mode.
One problem is that you are unable to reactivate echoMode in case of a program crash as there is no global crash handler. See issue 17743 for that.
I would like to know if there is a way to know if DECCKM function (specifying whether or not to use ANSI cursor sequences) has been set or not.
I'm connecting to a process via ptrace so I have no way to know if the sequences ^[[?1h or ^[[?1l have been sent to the terminal before making the connection.
Is there some string sequence that, when sent to the terminal, will allow me to query the state of Cursor Keys Mode? Or is there some C function/syscall that can do it? As I'm debugging the process I can fake both terminal input and call system functions on behalf of the debugged process so I'm just interested in knowing how can you perform the check as if you were writing the program and had access to the source code.
Use DECRQM to inquire status of DECCKM.
I'm currently writing a macro that performs a series of control sends and control clicks.
They must be done in the exact order.
At first I didn't have any sleep statements, so the script would just go through each command regardless whether the previous has finished or not (ie: click SUBMIT before finish sending the input string)
So I thought maybe I'll just put some sleep statements, but then I have to figure out how best to optimize it, AND I have to consider whether others' computers' speeds because a slow computer would need to have longer delays between commands. That would be impossible to optimize for everyone.
I was hoping there was a way to force each line to be run only after the previous has finished?
EDIT: To be more specific, I want the controlsend command to finish executing before I click the buttons.
Instead of ControlSend, use ControlSetText. This is immediate (like GuiEdit).
My solution: use functions from the user-defined library "GuiEdit" to directly set the value of the textbox. It appears to be immediate, thus allowing me to avoid having to wait for the keystrokes to be sent.