Paste() doesn't work "perfectly"

[Alex]

Hi,

Sikuli Version : 1.1.0
OS : Windows 10 x64

I'm using Sikuli and in my script i'm using "paste(ucode("trolol;dsqjklds546$))"

The problem is that sometimes it works, sometimes not.
When it works, the text is pasted correctly.
When it doesn't the text is not pasted and the script continues like nothing happened...

What did I do wrong ?

Thanks.

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

usually a timing problem: the GUI is not yet ready to accept the paste, because your script is too fast ;-)

put a short but sufficient wait (try wait(0.5)) before the paste()

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

should have been posted as a question

[Alex (alexboost)]

I already put a sleep(1) before, it should be enough no ?

[Todd Davies (fomx)]

Hi Raimund,

I have a machine in my office that has this problem and adding sleep doesn't solve it. It seems unique to windows 10 though and not related to the where you are pasting. Consider the following that pastes into a text editor.

for _ in range(20):
    for i in range(10):
        sleep(1)
        paste(i)
    type(key.Enter)

This will fail to paste() a random number and doesn't seem dependent on how long the sleep() function is.

This should perhaps be a windows10 specific bug.

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

@Todd Davies
a syntactical correct and reproducible example would be:

# supposing the text window is the frontmost behind SikuliX so it has focus after script start
for _ in range(20):
   for i in range(10):
       paste(str(i)) # paste needs a string
   wait(1)
   type(Key.ENTER) #key.Enter is wrong

... and works on Windows 10 (64Bit latest)

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