Ron and Aaron, could a function be added to the toolkit for now to make this easier? say one that would return an object containing the index and the modifiers from the passed string?
Chip ------------------------------ Chip Orange Database Administrator Florida Public Service Commission chip.ora...@psc.state.fl.us (850) 413-6314 (Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.) > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Parker [mailto:r...@gwmicro.com] > Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 9:20 AM > To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com > Subject: Re: inserting keys by name ... > > Jeff Bishop wrote: > > Hello, > > > > What would be the best way to insert a key such as > > Control-Windows-Numpad-+ as the key name to the InsertKey method? I > > would like to pass to a generic function the key name to act on and > > have it insert that value in an InsertKey function. > > > > > You couldn't have asked this question before 7.1 shipped? <smile> > > Unfortunately, it's not a simple matter of passing the string > directly > to some method. We've made a note to add something useful to > the object > model in the future to make that easier. > > For now, you have to use Keyboard.Key to turn the string into a Key > object, then build a KeyModifiers value from the various FilterBlah > properties of the Key object: > > > Dim km > Dim k > Set k = Keyboard.Key( stringValue ) > km = 0 > If k.FilterShift = kfsDown Then > km = km + kmShift > End If > If k.FilterControl = kfsDown Then > km = km + kmControl > End If > ' et cetera > Keyboard.InsertKey k.Index, km > > > There's not a strict one-to-one correspondence between the keys that > Keyboard.Key and friends will give you and the keys that you can > insert. For example, InsertKey doesn't attempt to do anything with > numlock, so if you need to deal with NumOn or NumOff you will need to > use InsertKeyDown and InsertKeyUp as needed to toggle it before and > after inserting your key. > > >
