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Jan
Jan

Reputation: 43169

VBS - Sendkeys with curly braces

I am trying to level up the Dragon Speech Recognition which uses VBS in its Advanced Scripting Section. Using SendKeys behaves strange though. I'd like to send curly braces:

SendKeys "{}}"

throws an error, while

SendKeys "^%0"

works flawlessly. Even SendKeys "{{}" works but the closing curly brace is only accomplished via Shift + Alt + 0.

The documentation clearly states {{} and {}} respectively but this won't work. Am I missing something here?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 508

Answers (1)

user692942
user692942

Reputation: 16672

As suggested in the comments, you need to test this outside the confines of Dragon Speech Recognition. I say this because, with a simple test, it's clear SendKeys behaves as expected.

Dim shell: Set shell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Call shell.Run("notepad")
Call WScript.Sleep(100)
Call shell.AppActivate("Notepad")
Call shell.SendKeys("{{}")
Call WScript.Sleep(100)
Call shell.SendKeys("{}}")

Output (in Notepad):

{}

Upvotes: 1

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