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Mainframe problem with usin mnemonics

Veli-MattiRajal
Level 2
Hi. I have a problem with Reflection 16 desktop mainframe client. I use .NET API.  I try to send enter with Global Send Key and text is "@E". It wont press enter. Only writes @E to the emulator. What I'm doing wrong? I have also tried , {ENTER}, etc normal Global Send Key Events without any success. Im using Blueprism 5.0.30. Anyone else has this kind of behavior before? Can anyone assist me with this?    
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Denis__Dennehy
Level 15
A little trick I have used in the past - Create a macro using the emulators record macro functionality, include the enter key and any other key strokes you are interested in.  Then save the macro and view it - it should show you the text that the macro expects to receive for the enter keystroke.    Also, I had a strange thing once where a mainframe actually had two enter keys, one being the main enter/newline text key and the other being the enter key that is part of the numeric keypad.  This was impacting my automation.  I played with the keyboard mapping in the emulator so that both enter keys were the same and then my interface worked. If all else fails you could create a seperate Win32 object for sending keystrokes that do not work using the API.  Your Win32 object can have a Send Enter action that uses the windows interface to send the enter.