This action allows you to simulate a key press or release. This action should not be used to write text, to do so you should rather use the Write text action. You could use this action to trigger a keyboard shortcut (F5 to refresh a Web page, Escape to exit a dialog box…) or another feature.

The key to press. To set the value of this field you only have to press the wanted key.

The action that should be performed:

• Press and release: a simple keypress.
• Press: the key is maintained pressed until another action stops it or until the execution ends.
• Release: the key is released if it was previously pressed.

The amount of key presses to simulate. [Added in Actionaz 3.5.0.]

The keyboard type to use. Windows only.

• Win32: the standard Windows keys.
• DirectX: the DirectX keys, choose this if the regular keys doesn't work.

The amount of time to wait before releasing a pressed key.

• Bad parameter
• Code error
• Timeout
• Simulation failed
• Invalid action

<BOOKMARK:simulation_failed>

This exception is thrown when the simulation failed.

• Default action: stop the script execution

<BOOKMARK:invalid_action>

This exception is thrown when the action is invalid.

• Default action: stop the script execution