[Solved] keyboardputscancode - input keeps repeating infinitly

[algee]

I want to automate inputs on my vm's, so i started working with the keyboardput* commands.

keyboardputstring works just fine, but apparently doesn't support \r \n \t and the like, so i guess i will have to work with keyboardputscancode instead to do them tabs and returns.

problem is, when i perform a keyboardputscancode, the input will keep repeating until i manually stop it (i.e. press a key on the keyboard on the guest os)

it appears the command only sends a keydown and no keyup ?

Host is Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB, Build 10.0.14393 - VB 5.2.12
Guest is Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS - VB GA 5.2.12

i already looked around, only found this issue to exist since 2013 (wtf?):
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=55373&start=30
but no info on how to get this working, well none that actually worked anyways

please help, i really need this badly

[algee]

nvm, guess reading helps occassionally.

got my keycodes from here
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes-1.html

1.1 first sentence

Below I'll only mention the scancode for key press (`make'). The scancode for key release (`break') is obtained from it by setting the high order bit (adding 0x80 = 128).

[socratis]

You might also want to take a look at viewtopic.php?f=9&t=80315&start=15#p414817

i already looked around, only found this issue to exist since 2013 (wtf?): viewtopic.php?f=8&t=55373&start=30

Apparently you didn't look hard enough . From the same thread as above (you might want to read the whole thread after all):

Turns out this is a requested feature, an old one, the oldest in reference to Clipboard to be exact. We have the following tickets:

• 2017-09-08, #17066 : Universal host-to-guest paste (closed enhancement: duplicate)
• 2016-04-30, #15372 : Let users paste plain text as keystrokes (closed enhancement: duplicate)
• 2016-01-12, #15031 : Add menu item to type/insert clipboard contents to keyboard (closed enhancement: duplicate)
• 2011-07-24, #9291 : [feature-request] Guest Additions: Please provide clipboard copy paste for text-mode console VMs (without X.org) (closed enhancement: duplicate)
• 2009-02-07, #3293 : Genereal text paste support (host->guest) (closed enhancement: duplicate)
• 2008-01-31, #1139 : Feature request: wider copy/paste support, in Console for instance

Glad you got it going. And thank you for marking the topic as [Solved]...