recording both click and send_key

[aditya11ad]

Hi,

if using calculator and clicking some buttons and also passing values from keybord , then only click is being recorded.

is there any way to capture both .

Thanks in advance .

[github-actions]

Thank you very much for sharing this first issue.

[beuaaa]

Hi,

Could you copy in your message the recorded file ?

[aditya11ad]

that can be done.
but it won't be automation then.

[beuaaa]

I would like to study your use case. There is probably a problem with Pywinauto Recorder. Having the file generated by Pywinauto Recorder would help me a lot to solve it.

[aditya11ad]

hi,
activities performed on calculator :

click -> 5
click -> multiply
press -> 2
click ->equal

generated script :

from pywinauto_recorder.player import *
with UIPath(u"Calculator||Window"):
	with UIPath(u"Calculator||Window->||Custom->||Group"):
		click(u"Number pad||Group->Five||Button")
	with UIPath(u"Calculator||Window->||Custom->||Group->Standard operators||Group"):
		click(u"Multiply by||Button")
		click(u"Equals||Button")

[beuaaa]

Thank you for your comprehensive description of this use case.

I've understood the problem: pressing key 2 is not captured by Pywinauto Recorder.
This is because Pywinauto Recorder only captures keystrokes when a field is filled in by the user.

To make this use case work, a solution would be to enable the capture of all keyboard events.

[aditya11ad]

hi,
thanks for the quick response.

so how to enable the capture of all keyboard events.

[beuaaa]

This requires the following changes to be made in Pywinauto Recorder:

• Add the "all keyboard events" entry to the "Process events" menu
• Implement the function process "all keyboard events"