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Sendkeys and Citrix

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Geates

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Aug 25, 2009
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I'm trying to automate a process through a Citrix connection. The .AppActivate works fine and the .sendkeys works with letters, numbers, and symbols, but not control keystrokes like enter or tab ({ENTER}, {TAB}). It could be as simple as "Citrix doesn't observe control keystrokes issued by objShell," but am hoping this is not the case.

Does anyone have input?

Code:
set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.shell")
objShell.AppActivate ("Ancillary Modifier Conversation")
objShell.sendKeys "a" 'works
objShell.sendKeys "{TAB}" 'does not works
objShell.sendKeys "7" 'works
objShell.sendKeys "{ENTER}" 'does not works
objShell.sendKeys "!" 'works

-Geates

 
No, '~' didn't work. It didn't even show up as a character. I wonder what else doesn't show up?
I sent the app a string of numbers and symbols.

I sent [tt]`~1!2@3#4$5%6^7&8*9(0)-_=+[{]};:,<.>/?'[/tt]
Which printed [tt]`1!2@3#4$5&8*90-_={];:,<.>/?'[/tt]
Characters [tt]~%6^7()+[}[/tt] did not show. "%", "^", and "+", along with their subsequent char, makes sense because they are control characters

This particular Citrix connection seems to only accept chars 32 to 126 (except chars the control chars). Upon a closer look, you may wonder why "{" showed up but "}" did not. Well, "{" did not show up but "+[" (which equals "{") did. Just as "^" didn't show up but "+6" did. This suggests that there may be away to send control chars. However, as one would expect, they come across as characters (ie "+[tab+]" didn't work. It came across as the literal "{tab}") I also tried sending the ascii code value (chr(9) and chr(123) & "tab" & chr(125)) but they seem to be interpreted as invalid characters. :(

Oh well, I guess I'll have to do it manually. Time to block out my calendar for a month!

-Geates


 
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