This section describes the Key action object. This type of action is used for sending keystrokes to the foreground application.
Keystroke emulation action.
This class emulates keyboard activity by sending keystrokes to the foreground application. It does this using Dragonfly’s keyboard interface, which uses the sendinput() function of the Win32 API.
The spec argument passed to the Key constructor specifies which keystroke events will be emulated. It has one of the following formats:
[modifiers -] keyname [/ innerpause] [: repeat] [/ outerpause]
[modifiers -] keyname [: direction] [/ outerpause]
Modifiers for this keystroke. These keys are held down while pressing the main keystroke. Can be zero or more of the following:
- a – alt key
- c – control key
- s – shift key
- w – Windows key
- Lowercase alphabet: a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z
- Uppercase alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
- Digits: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
- Navigation keys: left, right, up, down, pgup, pgdown, home, end
- Editing keys: space, enter, backspace, del, insert
- Symbols: ampersand, apostrophe, asterisk, at, backslash, backtick, bar, caret, colon, comma, dollar, dot, dquote, equal, escape, exclamation, hash, hyphen, minus, percent, plus, question, slash, squote, tilde, underscore
- Function keys: f1, f2, f3, f4, f5, f6, f7, f8, f9, f10, f11, f12, f13, f14, f15, f16, f17, f18, f19, f20, f21, f22, f23, f24
- Modifiers: alt, ctrl, shift
- Brackets: langle, lbrace, lbracket, lparen, rangle, rbrace, rbracket, rparen
- Special keys: apps, win
- Numberpad keys: np0, np1, np2, np3, np4, np5, np6, np7, np8, np9, npadd, npdec, npdiv, npmul, npsep, npsub