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DonationCoder.com Software => Mouser's Zone => Find And Run Robot => Topic started by: putnum on August 15, 2011, 10:20 AM
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I am looking to see if FARR can by the use of a hot key send "control f". I am wanting to be able to search for something using a web browser but using FARR.
Any Ideas?
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You could try WinSendKeys (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=26516.0), if FARR can't do it directly for you (I'm no FARR user, so can't help in that corner)
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Can you elaborate how you would want to use farr to do this?
Do you really mean that rather than hitting Ctrl+F you would rather hit break key, type something like "search" into farr window, then hit enter, and have FARR send the Ctrl+F? Seems a bit counter-productive..
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Mouser,
Sure I would like the ability to hit a hotkey and FARR issue the control f command. If possiable I would like it to paste what I copied in the clipboard into the find window. Internet Explorer would already be open...
Does this make since?
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Any update on this mouser?
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I will add this feature. I already have a SendKeys system for this in place in my other program Clipboard Help and Spell (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=15914.msg139864#msg139864) that allows you to send arbitrary keypresses, and i will just use that code.
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awesome thx mouser!
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This has now been added -- see the help files for help on using the "sendkeys" command in an alias result. You can send things like Ctrl+F, function keys, etc.
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Mouser thanks for adding this. I have been trying to get it to work and can't.
How would you do it if you wanted to do a control F?
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the result would like look this:
sendkeys ^f
for example:
send a control F to the last window| sendkeys ^f
NOTE: it's important the f be lowercase (other wise it's like sending a Ctrl+Shift+f which you dont want).
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awesome that works! What about sending clipboard data as well?
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just use $$c to send clipboard contents, so:
sendkeys ^f$$c
if you wanted to trigger the enter key automatically you could make it:
sendkeys ^f$$c{ENTER}
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dude you rock!!! Thanks. I am going to find that donation button now :)
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Does this work for you in IE 7 by chance? I get the find window but nothing gets transferred to the window?? This works fine in google chrome.
Adam
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works in my IE 8.
what you might try is sticking in a delay between the Ctrl+F and the clipboard text, like so:
send a control F to the last window| sendkeys ^f{SLEEP 500}$$c{ENTER}