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Hey all, I'm working through the documentation and helpful lessons on PAD. I'm having trouble understanding the basic function of send keys. 

 

1. What do the curly brackets {} versus the regular brackets () mean.

 

2. Would the following key command hold all three keys at the same time or just hold shift and A?

 

{Control} ({Shift} {A})

 

3. How do I send sequential key presses that press and hold until the last key is pressed? 

 

I've been doing more advanced stuff in PAD, but I don't have the basic function of sendkeys solid in my mind. 

 

I find the documentation on sendkeys a bit confusing. They use brackets in the example so it looks like {Enter}) - adding an extra bracket at the end made it really confusing for a while as I thought it was part of the syntax!

 

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    Hey @onewattamp 

    1. Curly brackets is a normal key. Regular brackets means it's a modified key (with a previous modifier key being informed)
    2. You can figure it out by recording desktop and then pressing the combination of keys you want. For example, I pressed Ctrl+Shift+F12 and Desktop Recorder returned me that:
    {LControlKey}({LShiftKey}({F12}))
    3. Based on that, i'm guessing if you want more than one modifier key pressed, you have to play with normal brackets, one inside the other.

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    22 on at

    Good advice on screen recorder. I will use that.

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