Sending ALT-codes using pywinauto

Question

I find no way to send an ALT-code to an application, for example Notepad

from pywinauto import application
from pywinauto.keyboard import SendKeys, KeySequenceError

app = application.Application()
app.start("Notepad.exe")
SendKeys("%(234)")

This displays "34" to the screen. How can I send the ALT-code for Omega to Notepad?

It will be possible in pywinauto==0.6.6 (currently in master branch). Example: {VK_MENU down}234{VK_MENU up}. — Vasily Ryabov, Oct 31 '18 at 22:02

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 31 '18 at 16:05

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According to the documentation, the send_keys method supports unicode characters. So, you should in that case be able to simply do SendKeys('Ω'). I can't test this myself at the moment but I don't see why that wouldn't work.

answered Oct 31 '18 at 16:05

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