Press command no longer working

[jsly80]

Hello,

My macros were working fine for awhile and then all of a sudden about 3 weeks ago, the press commands stopped working.

Here are two samples of code that recently started failing:

(this is to close a program)
Press ALT
Send>f
Wait>1
Release ALT
Wait>5
Send>x

(this is to paste some information into an e-mail)
Press LCTRL
Send>v
Wait>0.219
Release LCTRL

I have a bunch of scripts that use the keyboard in various ways. Any idea what could have happened?

Thanks!

[bnc1]

I ran into a similar problem after upgrading from 14.3 to 14.3.05 , OS is Windows 7

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Press ctrl
send>A
Release ctrl

this code just sends a plain A when it used to send a Select All function . Press ctrl command didn't work ??

Edit ...found a script where a simple Press Enter does work. Maybe the Release command is at fault ?

I noticed the problem right after I upgraded to 14.3.05. Most recent Windows 7 changes for me was on 10/13/2016.

[jsly80]

I just updated to version 14.3.05 yesterday. So I don't think it's directly related to a Macro Scheduler update as I've had this problem for a few weeks now. I'm also on Windows 7. I'm thinking maybe a Windows update broke the functionality?

I'm glad it's not just me having this problem.

I have the same happen with my paste script, it just sends a v and then continues on with the rest of macro.

[zabros2020]

Strange all worked for me just fine...except when I used Send>A...i used Send>a

Also, I prefer to use the build in function SelectMenu. Works flawlessly for any application.
This is for a PDF file:

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'Select all from PDF opened file
GetWindowHandle>.pdf*,hdlPDF
'Select all and copy to clipboard
Let>WIN_USEHANDLE=1
SetFocus>%hdlPDF%
Wait>0.2
SelectMenu>%hdlPDF%,1,9
Wait>0.2
SelectMenu>%hdlPDF%,1,8
Wait>0.2
SelectMenu>%hdlPDF%,1,4
Wait>1
'GetClipBoard
GetClipBoard>rawData
Length>rawData,Chk_Len

[Marcus Tettmar]

Guys, if you had a problem with 14.3.05 please download 14.3.06 which reverts back to the existing system. Available now.

We thought we'd tested all eventualities but we failed. I was very worried about changing the SendText code but also wanted to find a fix for people running on non-English versions who didn't want or couldn't set the "Language for non-Unicode programs" option in Windows.

It turns out that this "fix" fails to honour some modifier keys in some cases. This won't do. We can't risk breaking such a fundamental function that is in use by thousands of people. So for backward compatibility reasons we have today backed out this change BUT added a way for those people running non-English Windows to use the "fix".

They can do this by setting SK_UNICODE to 1. In a way this is a misnomer. Unicode always WAS supported, but for some reason in some cases, "Language for non-Unicode programs" had to be set to English on some non-English Windows versions to ensure the correct character was sent.

On the longer term I hope we can find a solution that works for everyone without having to set options, and we will continue to test, but hopefully you can appreciate that it is more important right now to maintain backward compatibility.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

[jsly80]

Awesome, thanks Marcus and BTW I love your program and tell all of my tech buddies about it. It's saving me so much time each morning running these stupid reports. haha

I'll do the update and post back my results.

[jsly80]

@Marcus,
Thanks the updated version fixed my issues.

Take care,
John

[Phil Pendlebury]

Just to add, I had a similar issue, sending:

Press SPACE
Wait>0.2
Press DOWN

Loop above

I was sending this to the Windows search indexer (to turn off hundreds of filename extensions).

Spent 30 minutes checking double checking etc.

Finally I got it to work by starting MS as admin. So this was a different issue. But it was confusing.

Incidentally the same applies to latest version.

[Marcus Tettmar]

Yep. Only an admin process can control another admin process. If that weren't the case Windows would not be secure. Think about it. Please see:

http://help.mjtnet.com/article/11-contr ... n-as-admin

[Phil Pendlebury]

I know mate, was just pointing out that sometimes that is the answer and not a problem with MS itself.