Test for Windows Cannot Record Key Events for MS-DOS Session

ID Number: Q82153

1.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

You cannot record keyboard events for an MS-DOS session under

Microsoft Windows when recording events using the Test Driver Record

Events command (Tools menu). This is a limitation of Microsoft

Windows.

This information applies to Microsoft Test version 1.0 for Windows.

More Information:

The recorder features of Test Driver cannot record keyboard events

generated by an MS-DOS box, because an MS-DOS box does not generate

the same system level messages that other Windows applications do. If

you use this method to create a Test script, you can modify the script

by inserting calls to the DoKeys or QueKeys routine (from

TESTEVNT.DLL) to send keystrokes to a windowed MS-DOS box. However,

this will not send keys to a full screen MS-DOS session invoked under

Windows.

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