jQuery: how to filter out non-character keys on keypress event?

The selected answer for this question is not complete. It does not handle the case where a character key is being pressed in combination with a modifier key (e.g. CTRL–A). Try, for example, typing CTRL–A using firefox with the following code. The current answer will consider it as a character: HTML: <input placeholder=”Try typing CTRL-A …

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Python simulate keydown

This code should get you started. ctypes is used heavily. At the bottom, you will see example code. import ctypes LONG = ctypes.c_long DWORD = ctypes.c_ulong ULONG_PTR = ctypes.POINTER(DWORD) WORD = ctypes.c_ushort class MOUSEINPUT(ctypes.Structure): _fields_ = ((‘dx’, LONG), (‘dy’, LONG), (‘mouseData’, DWORD), (‘dwFlags’, DWORD), (‘time’, DWORD), (‘dwExtraInfo’, ULONG_PTR)) class KEYBDINPUT(ctypes.Structure): _fields_ = ((‘wVk’, WORD), (‘wScan’, …

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Key Presses in Python

Install the pywin32 extensions. Then you can do the following: import win32com.client as comclt wsh= comclt.Dispatch(“WScript.Shell”) wsh.AppActivate(“Notepad”) # select another application wsh.SendKeys(“a”) # send the keys you want Search for documentation of the WScript.Shell object (I believe installed by default in all Windows XP installations). You can start here, perhaps. EDIT: Sending F11 import win32com.client …

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Optimised search using Ajax and keypress

You can do something like this: $(‘#searchString’).keyup(function(e) { clearTimeout($.data(this, ‘timer’)); if (e.keyCode == 13) search(true); else $(this).data(‘timer’, setTimeout(search, 500)); }); function search(force) { var existingString = $(“#searchString”).val(); if (!force && existingString.length < 3) return; //wasn’t enter, not > 2 char $.get(‘/Tracker/Search/’ + existingString, function(data) { $(‘div#results’).html(data); $(‘#results’).show(); }); } What this does is perform a …

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press any key to continue in nodejs

In node.js 7.6 and later you can do this: const keypress = async () => { process.stdin.setRawMode(true) return new Promise(resolve => process.stdin.once(‘data’, () => { process.stdin.setRawMode(false) resolve() })) } ;(async () => { console.log(‘program started, press any key to continue’) await keypress() console.log(‘program still running, press any key to continue’) await keypress() console.log(‘bye’) })().then(process.exit) Or …

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