Sub Activity – Keyboard
The section in UI Automation enables automated interaction with applications by simulating keyboard actions.
The Keyboard activity has the following sub activities:
Send Hotkey: This activity sends keyboard shortcuts to a specified UI Element.
Input Properties:
- KeyModifiers: enter a hotkey to perform a specific action or command.
Options Properties:
- Activate: Enables the specified UI element field.
- ClearField: Removes existing text from the specified UI element field.
- ClickBeforeTyping: The specified UI element field is clicked before sending the keystrokes.
Send Keys: This activity allows the users to send keys to a specified UI Element.
Input Properties:
- Keys: Input text that is to be written in the specified UI element field.
Options Properties:
- Activate: Enables the specified UI element field.
- ClearField: Removes existing text from the specified UI element field.
- ClickBeforeTyping: The specified UI element field is clicked before sending the keystrokes.
- DelayBetweenKeys: The time interval, in milliseconds, between each keystroke.
Send Secure Keys: This activity lets users pass keys as a Secured String variable instead of a String variable format.
Input Properties:
- Keys: Secure string that is to be written in the specified UI element field.
Options Properties:
- Activate: Enables the specified UI element field.
- ClearField: Removes existing text from the specified UI element field.
- ClickBeforeTyping: The specified UI element field is clicked before sending the keystrokes.
- DelayBetweenKeys: The time interval, in milliseconds, between each keystroke.