How to clear text in a textbox?

[aqua267]

I am writing a script to launch a windows application. It requires a username and password to login. My script sends the username and password to the application.

The application stores the username value on first time login. So when I try to login the second time, it fails by sending the same credentials again.
Can I clear out/reset the username column before sending the login credentials every time? How do I clear the contents of username column?

[adroege]

Every application behaves slightly different, however these are things I would try.

Double click in the field (usually this highlights the text in the field), then do a Press Delete.

If that doesn't work, single click in the field, Press Home, press shift, press end, release shift (this should highlight all the text) then press delete.

Put small wait> statements in between all key presses to give the application time to react accordingly.

[Marcus Tettmar]

CTRL-A also does a select all. So once the field is focused (either via Press Tab or some other method), do:

Press CTRL
Send>a
Release CTRL

And then you can send your input.

[aqua267]

Thanks for your reply. Press tab took me back to the username textbox and I could clear it using highlight and delete button.

[bennyn]

For the desired scenario I use the following commands:

Code: Select all

    Press End
    Press Shift
    Press Home
    Release Shift
    Press Del

These commands also delete the text of a textbox. But don't forget to give the focus to the textbox.