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shoichit  
#1 Posted : Tuesday, July 11, 2023 11:13:16 PM(UTC)
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Hi

Thank you for providing such a great tool and helping us by making our life easier. I have two questions regarding the Sendkeys function.

1) I have one line script attached to a stroke. This is simply to move down to another tab in Google chrome. It switches to the next tab when it is done.

Quote:
sp.SendKeys ("^{PgDn}");


It was working fine until today when I updated the strokeplus, V0.5.7.4. When I do the stroke, it shows the name of the action so S+ is running it at least.
When I manually press Ctrl+Page Down, it does what is expected. Please let me know what could be happening here.

Another note is that another stroke with the following command still works.

Quote:
sp.SendKeys("^t");



2) What do I have to mimic "Ctrl+2" key press? This is to specify the second tab from the left by stroking. I tried below but didn't work.


Quote:
sp.SendKeys("^2");


Thank you in advance!
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Rob  
#2 Posted : Wednesday, July 12, 2023 12:55:49 PM(UTC)
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Ctrl Page Down works fine for me.

In general, I recommend using the Insert Hotkey button at the top of the script window, since this uses a more direct SendInput method as opposed to Microsoft SendKeys.

Click Insert Hotkey, then press the key combination, and it will insert the command at the current location:
Code:
//Control+Page Down
sp.SendModifiedVKeys([vk.LCONTROL], [vk.NEXT]);

//Ctrl 2:
sp.SendModifiedVKeys([vk.LCONTROL], [vk.VK_2]);
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shoichit  
#3 Posted : Wednesday, July 12, 2023 4:37:51 PM(UTC)
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Thank you for your prompt reply. I didn't know "Insert Hotkey" it is much easier because I don't have to find out the key names like "{PgDn}".

I figured out what the issue was. It was MS PowerToys. I set up a keyboard key switch between Ctrl and Capital keys using the tool. I revised the code as below and it works as expected. Thank you for your help.

Code:
sp.SendModifiedVKeys([vk.CAPITAL], [vk.NEXT]);
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