Robotype is a very nice utiliy to insert stored text anywhere. Like you type #r it translates it to 'kind regards' and as I understand it hooks to the keyboard driver to do this.

In an application running sandboxed it just seems to be not there.

I was reading the posts on keyboard input missing and I put a trace up, but I cannot find anything to fix this.

Any help is highly appreciated.
Bernie

Hi Bernie,

first you should post the Resource Access Monitor output and tell us what SBIE version you're running.

Running SBIE 3.30 and RoboType 3.1.2

Starting Notepad in SBIE:

(removed for brevity. --tzuk)

Starting RoboType in SBIE too (was running outside, but even running inside makes no difference, no key translation):

(removed for brevity. --tzuk)

Hello again, and sorry for the delay, please try this: Open your Sandbox Settings, go to Resource Access -> Window Access, click Add and type:



Click OK all the way back, restart your sandboxed browser and see if it makes a difference.

Hi Tzuk,

I did add the code as suggested to the sandbox settings.

But I have to start a second copy of RoboType within the Sandbox, only then the keyboard shortcuts are working. If the utility is running outside the sandbox any program within the sandbox ignores it.

This might be a nice workaround - but how do I start a program automatically when a sandboxed program is starte?

Bernie

Strange, I did not need to start another instance of RoboType. Are you using version 3.1.2 of RoboType?

Well thats simple, just use the AutoExec setting.
Say you want roboform.exe to not be forced sandbox, but you would like it to autostart in the DefaultBox when you open FF sandboxed.
Then just go to the ini, under the DefaultBox section, put in something like:

Just remember that the AutoExec setting only takes effect when the sandbox is clean, so you need to make sure you've deleted the sandbox first before running your browser sandboxed. Easiest solution to that would be to just set the sandbox to autodelete (if you wish).

Now a little question to tzuk, wouldn't it be easier for newbies to use the AutoExec setting if it was in the GUI?
I imagine you could put it in the "Program Start" section of the GUI and list it as "AutoExec" or "Autostart Programs".
Then the description could be something like "These programs/commands will automatically be loaded when a program is run in this sandbox"

Haha just a suggestion.

Yes, I am using 3.1.2

It is still not working - outside the Sandbox shortcuts are expanded - inside not at all.

Bernie

I tried RoboType again and I see that the resource name is slightly changed. This time, it was



Meaning that the last part is not fixed. So I revise my suggestion: Open your Sandbox Settings, go to Resource Access -> Window Access, click Add and type:



Hopefully this will do the trick. Just a reminder again, I noticed that RoboType gets confused when you run something sandboxed and the correct exclusion is not in place. So better to close and restart RoboType before you apply the updated exclusion in Sandboxie.

This made it work
Tzuk, thank's for your help.
Bernie

Good, I'm glad we were finally able to resolve this one, and now I can make the solution public:

http://www.sandboxie.com/index.php?KnownConflicts#robotype