Further modifying the Robot program to take the input from properties file in a specific format:
[1] TestRobot.java
Note:
With above values of properties file, program will execute keys repetitively after every 4 min for total 20 min. keys are "ALT+TAB" followed by "ALT+SHIFT+TAB".
import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import javax.swing.KeyStroke;
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/**
*
* @author PD
* This program will execute set of mouse key events repeatedly after a sleep.
* Keys input will be taken from the properties file in format: [PRESS|RELEASE]::[PRESS|RELEASE]:
* E.g. PRESS:A:RELEASE:A
* Press denotes Keyboard KeyPress event where as RELEASE dentoes KeyRelease event.
* Above example will press and release keyboard key A after every value mentioned in properties file [default is 1 min].
*/
public class TestRobot {
private static enum Key{PRESS, RELEASE};
private static final int DEFAULT_SLEEP_TIME_IN_MILLISEC = 10000; // 60000 milliseconds = 1 min
public static void main(String[] args) throws AWTException, IOException
{
long startTime = new Date().getTime();
Robot r = new Robot();
Properties p = new Properties();
int sleepTime = 0;
int endTime = 0;
String[] keyArray = null;
try {
p.load(new FileInputStream("live.properties"));
sleepTime = Integer.parseInt(p.getProperty("wakeup.time"));
System.out.println("sleepTime = " + sleepTime);
if(sleepTime == 0)
sleepTime = DEFAULT_SLEEP_TIME_IN_MILLISEC;
endTime = Integer.parseInt(p.getProperty("execution.time"));
System.out.println("Execution Time : " + endTime);
String keys = p.getProperty("keys");
if(keys != null) {
if(!Pattern.matches("^((PRESS|RELEASE):\\w+:)+(PRESS|RELEASE):\\w+$", keys))
throw new Exception("INVALID keys. Expecting value for keys in properties file in format '[PRESS|RELEASE]::[PRESS|RELEASE]:' i.e. PRESS or RELEASE must followed by a key.\nE.g. for ALT+S provide keys = PRESS:ALT:PRESS:S:RELEASE:S:RELEASE:ALT");
keyArray = keys.split(":");
if(keyArray == null)
throw new Exception("INVALID keys. Expecting value for keys in properties file in format '[PRESS|RELEASE]::[PRESS|RELEASE]:' i.e. PRESS or RELEASE must followed by a key.\nE.g. for ALT+S provide keys = PRESS:ALT:PRESS:S:RELEASE:S:RELEASE:ALT");
}
while(true) {
try {
Thread.sleep(sleepTime);
} catch (InterruptedException e1) {
break;
}
for (int i = 0; i < keyArray.length; i+=2) {
Key key = Key.valueOf(keyArray[i]);
switch (key) {
case PRESS:
r.keyPress(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(keyArray[i+1]).getKeyCode());
break;
case RELEASE:
r.keyRelease(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(keyArray[i+1]).getKeyCode());
break;
default:
throw new Exception("INVALID keys. Expecting value for keys in properties file in format '[PRESS|RELEASE]::[PRESS|RELEASE]:' i.e. PRESS or RELEASE must followed by a key.\nE.g. for ALT+S provide keys = PRESS:ALT:PRESS:S:RELEASE:S:RELEASE:ALT");
}
}
if(endTime <= 0 && (startTime + endTime) < new Date().getTime()) {
System.exit(0);
}
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
System.exit(0);
}
}
}
[2] live.properties
# Time is in miliseconds & execution.time <= 0 is infinite
execution.time = 1200000
wakeup.time = 240000
# keys format '[PRESS|RELEASE]:' E.g. for ALT+S provide keys = PRESS:ALT:PRESS:S:RELEASE:S:RELEASE:ALT
keys = PRESS:ALT:PRESS:TAB:RELEASE:TAB:PRESS:SHIFT:PRESS:TAB:RELEASE:TAB:RELEASE:SHIFT:RELEASE:ALT
Note:
With above values of properties file, program will execute keys repetitively after every 4 min for total 20 min. keys are "ALT+TAB" followed by "ALT+SHIFT+TAB".
