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Keyboard Press Events

Keyboard Press Events

  • Enter
  • Tab
  • Home
  • Delete
  • Shift+Home+Delete
  • Esc
  • CTRL+B
  • Down
  • Up
  • Page_Down
  • Left
  • F2
  • Copy
  • Paste
  • Enter
  • Tab
  • Home
  • Delete
  • Shift+Home+Delete

All of the mentioned KeyPress events are supported. All of them are associated with a search box, where you want to enter the keyboard after setting the text in a text field, pressing tab after setting the text in a text field to go to the next element on the page when there is no option on the page to click after setting the value.

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The home button can be used to point the mouse to the first character and delete deletes the first character when used in combination of Home, Shift+Home+Delete combination will delete all the contents that are set in the text field which is used for some validations.

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Esc

There could be instances where you would want to press the Keyboard Esc for closing the pop up for example.

Test Designer supports pressing Esc from the keyboard.

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Javascript example:

setSearchRetries(3);
prepareDomain("http://MSI:8080");
navigateTo("http://MSI:8080/UI/test/AIQ5811.html");
click(submit("btn btn-success"));
setValue(div("alertModal"),"{{ESC}}");
  • CTRL+B
  • Down
  • Up
  • Page_Down
  • Left
  • F2
  • Copy
  • Paste

Test Designer supports keyboard events of all the above keyboards, below is the example of the usage.

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Javascript example:

navigateTo("https://office.live.com/start/excel.aspx");
setValue(emailbox(0),"xxxx@appvance.com");
click(submit(0));
setDescription("provide password in double quotes");
setValue(password(0),);
click(submit(0));
click(button("No"));
click(div("New blank workbook[1]"));
wait(5000);
setDescription("Clicking some cell");
clickXY(canvas("ewr-sheettable"),"201,29");
assertExists(canvas("ewr-sheettable"));
keyboardCommand(setValue(div("gridKeyboardContentEditable"),"new value");
keyboardCommand(div("gridKeyboardContentEditable"),"DOWN");
keyboardCommand(div("gridKeyboardContentEditable"),"UP");
keyboardCommand(div("gridKeyboardContentEditable"),"CTRL B");
copy(div("ewa-fb-text-box"));
keyboardCommand(div("gridKeyboardContentEditable"),"DOWN");
paste(div("gridKeyboardContentEditable"));
keyboardCommand(div("gridKeyboardContentEditable"),"PAGE_DOWN");
keyboardCommand(div("gridKeyboardContentEditable"),"RIGHT");
keyboardCommand(div("gridKeyboardContentEditable"),"PAGE_UP");
keyboardCommand(div("gridKeyboardContentEditable"),"CTRL S");
keyboardCommand(div("gridKeyboardContentEditable"),"CTRL V");
log("OK");
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