How to create macros that emulate keystrokes?

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Leon André Bergman

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As a person who has no coding experience, and does not know C# at all, but have used ArsClip in the past, I would like some input on how I could make some macros work like I want.

I work with some systems that need to perform a lot of selections in different dropdowns and such, on webpages, and in my current program, I can simply tell the macro to run key strokes by writing [TAB REPEAT=1][ENTER REPEAT=2], this will make it Tab to the next selection and hit enter.

I know you have the BFS.Input.SendKeys function in C#, and I am sure it can do the same thing, but how does this work?

Oct 30, 2017 • #1

I've attached a Macro that should work for you. Here's how to get it into ClipboardFusion:

Download the file attached to this post
Open the ClipboardFusion Settings window
On the "Macros" tab, click the "Import" button
Select the file you downloaded in the first step
In the window that pops up, you can review the code and assign the Macro a HotKey
Click OK to close the Macro Edit window, then OK again to save and apply your changes

I hope this works for you!

• Attachment: Tab Once, Enter Twice.cfmacro [5,920 bytes]

Oct 30, 2017 • #2

Leon André Bergman

60 discussion posts

Thank you. This is pretty helpful. AS long as I can figure out what the correct name for all the keys are, I can make some interesting macros. How about adding a wait timer. Is there a code for that?

Oct 30, 2017 • #3

I've put together another macro that should show you how to add a delay to your code. I hope it works for you!

• Attachment: Tab, Shift Tab, Wait 2 Seconds, Enter Twice.cfmacro [6,848 bytes]

Oct 31, 2017 • #4

Leon André Bergman

60 discussion posts

thank you. Ive been tinkering with it all day, and I got my full macro to work, with about a houndred lines of code. I also figured out the wait timer.

Oct 31, 2017 • #5

Hi, I want to do this too, but I want the hotkey to to send the keystrokes only when a certain window is active. How can I add that condition?

Jan 14, 2019 • #6

@Frank: You can wrap the code in an if statement that checks the window title of the focused window, like this:

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if (BFS.Window.GetText(BFS.Window.GetFocusedWindow()).Contains("Notepad");
        {
            //send the tab key
            BFS.Input.SendKeys("{TAB}");

            //send the enter key
            BFS.Input.SendKeys("{ENTER}");
            BFS.Input.SendKeys("{ENTER}");
        }

Jan 16, 2019 • #7