Sending ^ in keystrokes

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portabletelly
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Sending ^ in keystrokes

Post by portabletelly » Wed Sep 30, 2015 6:32 am

I have some code with the following password L3C$5j35DF<^

My code is as follows

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Send>{"L3C$5j35DF<^"}
However it only ever outputs L3C$5j35DF< to screen.

Any idea how I send the ^ keystroke?

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Marcus Tettmar
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Re: Sending ^ in keystrokes

Post by Marcus Tettmar » Wed Sep 30, 2015 9:08 am

It works for me when I test against Notepad:

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SetFocus>Notepad*
Send>{"L3C$5j35DF<^"}
So maybe something with your app?

Have you tried sending it on it's own? With a delay? Slowing key send rate down?
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Re: Sending ^ in keystrokes

Post by JRL » Wed Sep 30, 2015 12:30 pm

A couple of other things to try if caret doesn't get passed with send:

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Let>vPass=L3C$5j35DF<^
Send>vPass

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Let>vPass=L3C$5j35DF<^
PutClipBoard>vPass
Press Ctrl
Send>v
Release Ctrl

portabletelly
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Re: Sending ^ in keystrokes

Post by portabletelly » Wed Sep 30, 2015 9:15 pm

Thanks ill try them.

Whats really baffling is if i send the following text with two ^^ it types it correctly

"L3C$5j35DF<^^"

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Re: Sending ^ in keystrokes

Post by JRL » Wed Sep 30, 2015 9:35 pm

That sounds like your software sees the caret as an escape character.

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