keyboard.press_key doesn't work

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Create this Autokey script attached to any hotkey:

<code>
keyboard.press_key("<ctrl>")
mouse.click_relative(0,0,1)
keyboard.release_key("<ctrl>")
</code>

2. Trigger the hotkey in any window.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Only the mouse click is done. Ctrl is not pressed.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

AutoKey 0.81.4 on Kubuntu 11.10

Original issue reported on code.google.com by vian...@likwid.fr on 27 Feb 2012 at 11:03

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Need to add methods to fake_keydown and fake_keyup as press_key/release_key 
won't work for modifier keys

Original comment by cdekter on 27 Feb 2012 at 8:32

Changed state: Accepted

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

On reviewing the code, keyboard.press_key is already using xtest to fake the 
keypress as best possible. Nothing further can be done I'm afraid.

Original comment by cdekter on 1 Mar 2012 at 10:28

Changed state: WontFix

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keyboard.press_key doesn't work #179