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Old 11-02-2012
Input keyboard keys upon program launch
Hey guys, first post! I want to write a script that will wait 1 second and then input the keys CTRL+ALT+J to the application i just opened.

The program is dosbox, and thay key combination starts video recording Smilie I have no idea how to program this, can anyone help please?

thanks in advance!
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Old 11-02-2012
You could use "expect" for this kind of tasks. See the documentation of "expect" and download and install it onto your system if it isn't already there.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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Old 11-02-2012
thank you! i will read about that, in the meanwhile, i was able to figure out how to do it on vbscript. The script itself launches the application, waits a little bit, and then sends keys, something like this for bash would be perfect to me! Gonna do some research and post results when i do find some

Code:
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run "dosbox", 9
WScript.Sleep 1500 
WshShell.SendKeys "^j"

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