Winappdriver: SendKeys special characters

[stoneman]

The release notes for 0.4-beta include "SendKeys functionality enabled for special characters". I have tried simulating the enter key using hello\n but this does not appear to work. Is this a bug or is there a different syntax for enter? What other characters are supported?

[alakshmi1030]

Sending a \n character through SendKeys generates a new line in our test project, but it does not simulate an enter key. We are still working on enabling simulating key presses such as the enter key; escape characters seem to be working.

[ddelapasse2]

^Any progress on this? I'm trying to force my app to log into Azure and to do this I need to enter the username and then TAB outside the field (Azure then redirects to a different login screen where I will fill in the password. Any other workaround for this? [NOTE: I am attempting to use this for UWP regression testing and so far it's been excellent!!!]

[timotiusmargo]

Thank you for your feedback @jonstoneman and @ddelapasse2! This special character support is now implemented in v0.6-beta release.

Note that to sending a special character key is done through a special unicode character constant. E.g.
editBox.SendKeys(OpenQA.Selenium.Keys.Tab); editBox.SendKeys(OpenQA.Selenium.Keys.Enter);

More examples can be found on https://github.com/Microsoft/WinAppDriver/blob/v0.6-beta/Tests/W3CWebDriver/ElementSendKeys.cs

[barisgul]

Hi @timotiusmargo ,
when I type to a text or special characters , driver types different text to notepad.exe as below.
`string text="This is some text and turkishbank.tiff /";
string symbols = "-=[]\;',./~!@#$%^&*()_+{}|:\"<>?";

driver.FindElementByClassName("Edit").SendKeys(text);
driver.FindElementByClassName("Edit").SendKeys(symbols);`

output1 : -ğü,şiöç.~!@#$%^&()_+{}|:"<>?
output2 : Thıs ıs some text and turkıshbankçtıff .

[barisgul]

I found cause of the problem. When I change keyboard language from turkish to Eng(US),
worked for me. Bu I want to use turkish keyboard. Is there any solution?

[hassanuz]

Thanks for reporting back @barisgul - multi-region keyboards are currently not supported. This is something we'll look into for a potential enhancement in the future.

[barisgul]

Hi @hassanuz
Is there a planned release date for supporting the multi region keyboards?
We use winium for now but we want switch to WinnAppDriver in our framework. This issue is very important for us.

[miksch123]

You can assign a string where you use the alt key and the number combination of the character that you want to have.
Example: string x = keys.Alt + keys.numpad9 + keys.numpad6 + keys.alt;