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Montikore
Occasional Contributor
9 years ago

How to enter text in the windows 10 search bar?

Hi,   I want to enter text in the search bar (windows 10), but whatever i tried failed. Even when recording a new script, the action of typing the text is not caught. When using the object spy, the...
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    Ryan_Moran
    9 years ago
    Sys.Desktop.Keys("[Win]SomeKeysToTypeIntoSearch");

    Hope this helps.

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Montikore
Occasional Contributor

Yes it works! Thanks!

but very slow... i'm using the same .Keys() function in other places, the typing is pretty fast. Do you have an idea why?

 

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Ryan_Moran
Valued Contributor
9 years ago

This was somewhat slow on my PC as well. It seems to be a performance issue with TestComplete.