SendKeys is not working correctly

Device: Surface Pro AppType: Desktop App Server version: tried on both 1.1.1 and 1.2.0 Client: Java

When I use sendkeys to send a text that contains normal and capitalized characters, all the capitalized characters after the first will be the same as the first. E.g:

• DemoAccount will be typed as DemoDccount
• abcdefghABCDEFGH > abcdefghAAAAAAAA

Even if I use sendkeys on another element, this still occurs. E.g: send Abcdef on element1, then on element2 sends GHIJKabc, the text on element2 will be AAAAAabc

[nhhai]

I tried this on a windows element (e.g: the text box in Run windows), and it doesn’t happen. This probably is a bug with Qt framework, I’ll debug to find out the problem.

For people who may also encounter this, my work around is to copy the text into clipboard and send ctrl + v (paste) instead.

Java code:

StringSelection selection = new StringSelection(value.toString());
Clipboard clipboard = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
clipboard.setContents(selection, selection);
e.sendKeys(Keys.CONTROL + "v" + Keys.CONTROL);

[faragm]

The copy to clipboard workaround works very well when running on same machine.

For remote execution I came up with the following workaround which seems to work fine.

1. Replace any uppercase character with SHIFT+[the lowercase character]
2. After any special character type a dummy special character while pressing SHIFT then delete it afterwards (This is not needed for all special characters but only those that requires pressing shift before but for simplicity I added for any special char )

public void type(String text) {
       StringBuilder modifiedText = new StringBuilder();
       for (int i = 0; i < text.length(); i++) {
           char ch = text.charAt(i);
           if (Character.isUpperCase(ch)) { 
               modifiedText.append(Keys.chord(Keys.SHIFT, Character.toString(Character.toLowerCase(ch))));
           } else if (!Character.isLetterOrDigit(ch)) { 
               modifiedText.append(ch);
               modifiedText.append(Keys.chord(Keys.SHIFT, "#", Keys.BACK_SPACE));
           } else {
               modifiedText.append(ch);
           }
       }
       element.sendKeys(modifiedText.toString());
   }