Possible to speed up text entry using keyboard.press()?

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Possible to speed up text entry using keyboard.press()?

Post by Ciege » Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:34 pm

I am using Keyboard.Press() to enter file paths and names into save as dialogs. These paths and names can get quite long (some more than 100 characters long).
In my automation code I am doing this multiple times while testing the exports of each of the reports from the AUT.
My question is, is it possible to speed up the entry of each character using the Keyboard.Press() method?

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Keyboard.Press(strReportsDirectory + "\\" + strExportReportName);
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Post by Support Team » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:17 am

Hello Ciege,
use the overload from the "Keyboard.Press" function or set the "Keyboard.DefaultKeyPressTime" instead.

e. g.

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Keyboard.Press("kjjdododpsdjfjjhuiohllkjjk", 1); // for 1ms per key press
or

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Keyboard.DefaultKeyPressTime = 1;
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Post by Ciege » Wed Apr 22, 2009 4:28 pm

Ah, much better. Thank you!