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Introduction
While doing test automation, you may come across cases where you need to perform an action that uses the keyboard buttons.
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To achieve this behavior, Qualitia provides an action called PressKeys, which allows specifying keys or key combinations in its parameter. To know the components of this PressKeys action, refer to PressKeys Actions.
You can execute the test cases on both active or inactive screen. An inactive screen is a screen that is minimized or is not visible when execution is happening. It is expected that all the steps in a test case must be properly executed even on the inactive screen. For example, while executing a test case with PressKeys on a VM and then switching to the local machine, the keys must be clicked on the VM (which has an inactive screen) where the test case is being executed.
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The keyboard functionality can be automated in Qualitia Automation Studio, which internally uses the following ways for the implementation of PressKeys action:
Using Actions class provided by Selenium Web driver
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Qualitia incorporates the above defined ways and provides the following two ways to press keys in an inactive screen
Setting the Registry key for Remote Desktop Execution
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For instruction on how to set a registry key for Remote Desktop Execution, refer to PressKeys Action Does not Execute on an Inactive Screen.
After setting the registry keys, when you minimize the Remote Desktop Connection or VM window on your computer, this will not affect the VM’s GUI and the press keys will happen, the way it happens on the active screen.
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When set to true, Qualitia internally uses the selenium web driver's Actions class to press keys. Selenium does not support some keys, which are mentioned in Using Actions class provided by Selenium Web driver.
References
https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/interactions/Actions.html
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/Robot.html
https://www.vbsedit.com/html/4b032417-ebda-4d30-88a4-2b56c24affdd.asp
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