How to keep a key pressed?

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Hi,
I created a citrix sequence that clicks on multiple images. I need to hold the Ctrl key while pressing the images. Is this possible?
Thanks

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Have a look at ā€˜Key Modifierā€™ property for ā€˜Clickā€™ activity.

Thanks,
Rammohan B.

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Interesting. I guess what Edacal is to hold Ctrl in one activities, and click multiple images in other activities.
I donā€™t think this can be done in one activity.
Unfortunately I donā€™t have answer to this, but would like to hear the result too.

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Hi @Jane

One way is to use the Keymodifier like what was suggested for each click activity, so it holds down for example Ctrl each time it clicks.
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The other way is to use the TypeInto and perform a down keypress, but be careful because the key will be stuck down until it is released by using the up keypress.
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Regards.

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Looks like your latter idea could work. (The first one wonā€™t work because, for this case, we want to HOLD ctrl key and click images, before release ctrl key. Any Keymodifier option will hold and release in one activities.)

Thanks.

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I canā€™t manage to make it work with other keys, like A or H. Is it possible to do?

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Do you mean you want to hold down ā€˜aā€™ while clicking? Actually, I am not sure you can do that.

One thing you can try though is with a TypeInto use this string ā€œ[d(a)]ā€ before the click and ā€œ[u(a)]ā€ after the click. I have no idea if that will work and have not tried it. ā€˜dā€™ is for down keypress and ā€˜uā€™ is for up keypress - though, keep in mind if the click fails, then the key is stuck in the down position.

I feel like you should find a different approach to interacting with the element, though.

Regards.

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Yes thatā€™s right. Iā€™ve tried the d and u modifiers but didnā€™t work. It did work well with ctrl.
Recently what I had to do is to hold space or pagedown, so to load a long list of elements inside a web, but neither of them worked with this u and d thing. I ended up using ctrl+home and ctrl+end several times to achieve this. I think it would have been easier to just hold space or pagedown, but I couldnā€™t make it work.
Thanks for your answer. Cheers.

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Iā€™ve looking for hold pgup key for like 3 seconds but canā€™t catch the answer yet.

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I need to hold down the ā€œCā€ key for 10 seconds.

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You could try using a TypeInto to hold down with a DelayAfter of 10000, then a TypeInto to release.
For example,
TypeInto "[d(c)]" //delayAfter as 10000
TypeInto "[u(c)]"

d for downkeypress
u for upkeypress