sendkeys("^{esc}r")
sendkeys("cmd{enter}")
sleep(2)
sendkeys("cdefcdefcdefccc")

should open a command prompt and send the character string cdefcdefcdefccc

instead every 'c' character it hits is sends a ^c (ctrl + c). If I change the code to read:

sendkeys("^{esc}r")
sendkeys("cmd{enter}^c")
sleep(2)
sendkeys("cdefcdefcdefccc")

it then correctly sends the string cdefcdefcdefccc about every other time.

Anybody confirm this? I want to launch winword.exe and have the background script continue and this appears to be the only way to do it. If I shell, the shell command waits till winword.exe exists; if I call a batch file, the batch file waits till winword.exe exits before it continues so I can't pass keystrokes to the running app. Any suggestions around that problem?

Thanks! JIM

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K Torkelson
Sys Admin Analyst
ktorkelson@providentfunding.com

Here's another possible bug/documentation error, this one I don't think has a work around.

According to the documentation:

Dim $counters[14] creates an array with 15 elements, with index number running from 0 to 14. In my experience it would actually create an array with 14 elements, with index number running from 0 to 13. The code below proves it:

dim $test[2]

$test[0] = "zero"
$test[1] = "one"
$test[2] = "two"

$test[2] ?
$test[1] ?
$test[0] ?

This code will error out on the third line. If you comment out or delete the third and fourth lines it works correctly and as expected, but not as documented.

Can anyone confirm? How do we go about getting the documentation fixed?

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K Torkelson
Sys Admin Analyst
ktorkelson@providentfunding.com