Description Using this action, you can prevent keystrokes received from the keyboard from being sent to any windows on your system. Keystrokes are ignored until an Unlock Keyboard action is processed, or until the task ends. You can use this action to prevent interruption to tasks, and to your workstation as a whole, while an AutoMate™ task is working.

Special Notes:

• This action prevents keystrokes globally, which means that the keyboard cannot be used by any application until the keyboard is unlocked or the task ends.

• Locking the keyboard also prevents AutoMate™ from sending keystrokes as well. This means that a Send Keystrokes action will fail unless the keyboard is unlocked first.

• Because the action imposes a global system keyboard lock, a task that locks the keyboard may prevent another task from sending keystrokes. To prevent this, be sure the keyboard is in a known state before launching tasks that require a Send Keystrokes action

Related Topics:

Unlock Keyboard Action

Unlock Mouse Action

Password Action

Other Available Actions