Control Tab not working

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:57 pm

I am trying to select different tabs by pressing CTRL and then sending TAB. But MS does not recognize that the CTRL key is held down, so it just cycles through the different fields. So I have resorted temporarily to using mouse clicks to select the tabs. Any suggestions here?

Chris

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:12 pm

Please submit the actual code and point out where the problem is exhibited.

Also, what program are you using when pressing CTL-TAB?

brad · Post by **brad** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 6:08 pm

The program we are using is for simulating underwater acoustics, and for a particular simulation, we would like to cycle between tabs, change values and then go to another tab. Here is what we've tried:

SetFocus>PC SWAT - [PCSWAT1]
// ---------------------------------------------------------
// Opens the forward time series dialog box and then modifies the range/depth settings
Press ALT
Send Character/Text>g
Release ALT
Press Up
Press Right
Press Enter
WaitWindowOpen>Forward Time Series
Press CTRL
Press Tab
Press Tab
Press Tab
Release CTRL
Wait>0.05
Press Backspace

// This next send character refers to the range to target.
Send Character/Text>5.5
Press Tab
Press Tab
Press Tab
Send>100
Press Tab
Send>100

// ---------------------------------------------------------

To get it to work correctly, i've just inserted a move mouse rel and then left click:

MouseMoveRel>425,20
LClick

Thanks for your help.

Brad (Chris's co-worker)

Lumumba · Post by **Lumumba** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 9:18 pm

Would you mind to provide an email address ?

Brad&ChrisatUnderWaterAcoustics.gov

Thx.

brad · Post by **brad** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:02 pm

bake8285 AT uidaho DOT edu

miles · Post by **miles** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 6:18 pm

I fount that adding a small wait (0.2) seems to fix MS not recognising CTRL being pressed before Tabbing.

miles · Post by **miles** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 6:34 pm

Just to clear up my bad sentence...

Press> CTRL
Wait>0.2
Send>TAB
Release>CTRL

Using mouse moves is handy but I tend to only use them in all else failes situations, any window movement, or not maximised, and you have errors plopping up all over the place.

Hope this helps.