How to send "Ctrl + c" in Sikuli? - keyboard

Question

This feels like it should be pretty easy but I can't find documentation on how to do this:
I just want Sikuli to type Ctrl+C to copy text to the clipboard.
type(KEY_CTRL+'c') doesn't work and neither does type(KEY_CTRL,'c').
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Try using type("c",KEY_CTRL) instead.
I wrote a simple script which types a line in notepad, double clicks it to mark it and then ctrl+x ctrl+v it into the document again. Works great.
openApp("notepad.exe")
find("textfield.png" )
type("Some text")
doubleClick("theText.png")
type("x", KEY_CTRL)
click("theTextField.png" )
type("v",KEY_CTRL)

Answer 2

The following works in 0.9 and newer versions of sikuli
type('x', KeyModifier.CTRL)

Answer 3

Key objects are defined for pretty much all the modifier keys and num pad keys. Anyways, it should look something like this
keyDown(Key.CTRL)
type('c')
keyUp(Key.CTRL)

Answer 4

The usage of type() and the possible key names are documented here:
http://doc.sikuli.org/region.html#Region.type
http://doc.sikuli.org/keys.html#key-constants

Answer 5

As others have mentioned, use the following:
type('c', Key.CTRL) # Copy command
One point worth mentioning - do not use upper-case characters, i.e.:
type('C', Key.CTRL) # Does not copy, avoid this
I haven't looked into the Sikuli source code, but my best guess is that it implicitly sends this as Shift+C, which results in a different command entirely.

Answer 6

type('x', Key.CTRL) also works.

Answer 7

Also, make sure that NUM_LOCK is off. If NUM_LOCK is on, it can make anything with KeyModifier.CTRL or KeyModifier.SHIFT misbehave.

Answer 8

You can try next code:
keyDown(Key.CTRL)
type("c")
keyUp(Key.CTRL)

Answer 9

I had a requirement to automate a flash content. The following code worked for me.
These were the following steps I ahd to perform as a part of the automation:
Enter Username and Password
Click on Login Button
Click on the button which will navigate to the application
The challenge I faced was to focus on the Username and password which had no placeholders . Hence the focusing was difficult. So I used the CTRL keys to do this .
Pattern appLogo = new Pattern("C:\\images\\appLogo.png");
StringSelection userNameText = new StringSelection("username");
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard().setContents(userNameText, null);//Copy the text into the memory
Screen s = new Screen();
s.find(appLogo);
s.click(appLogo);
s.type(Key.TAB);//I had to enter tab twice to focus on user name textbox
s.type(Key.TAB);
s.type("V",KeyModifier.CTRL);
StringSelection password = new StringSelection("password");
Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard().setContents(password, null);
s.type(Key.TAB);//I had to enter tab twice to focus on user name textbox
s.type("V",KeyModifier.CTRL);
Pattern loginButton = new Pattern("C:\\images\\Login.png");
s.find(loginButton);
s.doubleClick(loginButton);

Answer 10

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