find window and sending shortcuts/emulate keystroke

[Stalltime]

hi

I am having a problem with the finding window and sending a keyboard shortcut.

So for an example I did a macro which does the following:

find a window: Notepad.exe
bring to front
Wait: 2.09 sec
Emulate Keystrokes: {x}

everything works in my simple macro except sending the keystroke: x

Can anyone help me please?
I am using event ghost version:0.4.1.r1710

Thanks

[kgschlosser]

Ok. Instead of identifying notepad in general. You should be able to expand notepad in the find window action. You will want to locate the actual text control inside of notepad

[kgschlosser]

Forgot to mention. If you locate the actual text control there is no need to bring the window to the front anymore either. The handle for the text control will automatically get passed to the keyboard emulator and that handle is what the emulator will use to identify where to send the keystrokes to

[kgschlosser]

your setting for the find window should look like the following make sure you have the WindowName box unchecked. unless there is a specific document edit you are looking to only have the macro work on.
also set the Wait up to 1.0 seconds

[Stalltime]

thank you guys, it works.

[kgschlosser]

no worries m8. that's what we are here for