From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-05-30T07:02:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Issue with ControlSend function using AutoIT in Ruby

On 5/29/07, Skye Weir-Mathews <carpeursus@gmail.com> wrote:
> ChrisH wrote:
> > The AutoItX docs indicate the the Send command is sensitive to the
> > state of Caps Lock
> > and also can be affected is a user happens to be holding down SHIFT
> > when the command
> > is executed. Would explain the intermittent/seemingly system dependent
> > behavior...
> >
> > Cheers
> > Chris Hulan
>
> This worked well at first, but then my issue came back which is
> confusing to me, because I've run a number of tests making absolutely
> sure that Caps Lock is turned off and I wasn't touching the keyboard at
> all. Interestingly enough when AutoIT send a bad string, it always
> downcases the same letters (when "LMNIGHTLYHOSTNAME2007_5_25" is bad, it
> always looks like "lMNIgHTlyHOsTNAME2007_5_2") which makes me think that
> it's not related to input from the keyboard, which is likely to be
> different every time.

This seems to be an issue with autoit itself. At first I intended to
ask you to try with standalone autoit, but then I googled a bit, and
found [1]. So look at autoit site if there's a solution. I'm too
sleepy to do anything more now.

Jano

[1] http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=15499