How to do Key.DELETE in Eclipse (Java)

Don't know much about Java, but it seems that it is not recognized, that Key is a Sikuli class. DELETE and all the others are constants defined in this class.

Just looked into the source:
The class Key is not available on the Java level, only on the Jython/Python level, to which you don't have access when working the way you do.

I guess, you have to do it on your own: KeyDelete e.g. is a unicode constant u"\ue006" (hope you know ;-)
Maybe looking into
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Esikuli-dev/sikuli/0.10/annotate/head%3A/sikuli-script/src/main/python/sikuli/Key.py
helps.

If you look into the source of class Region, you will see in the private method type_ch() that these unicode constants are converted into appropriate calls to the keypress function of the robot.
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Esikuli-dev/sikuli/0.10/annotate/head%3A/sikuli-script/src/main/java/edu/mit/csail/uid/Region.java
at line 672

Being able to use keystrokes was killing me because I needed to use Keystrokes to close apps in the mac. I found this post about how to use keystrokes in Java. Its super easy to implement!

http://www.1your.com/drupal/robotclassdemo

Read the article and you will be able to use Keystrokes with just a few lines of code :)

Here is my demo of how I was able to use keystrokes. I am basically opening IE on a windows machine and then closing it using Keystrokes :

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import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import edu.mit.csail.uid.FindFailed;
import edu.mit.csail.uid.SikuliScript;

public class testKeystrokes {
 public static void thinktime(String mseconds) {
  int milliseconds = Integer.parseInt(mseconds);

  try {
   Thread.sleep(milliseconds);
  } catch (InterruptedException e) {
   e.printStackTrace();
  }
 }//end method thinktime

 public static void main(String[] args) throws AWTException, FindFailed {

                                //creating sikuli object
                                SikuliScript app = new SikuliScript();

                                //creating Robot object so I can use Keystrokes
  Robot robot = new Robot();

  app.openApp("C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe");
  thinktime("10000");

                                //having code select specific Keyboard keys

  robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ALT);
  robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_ALT);

  robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_F);
  robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_F);

  robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_X);
  robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_X);

 }//end method main

}//end class
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Thanks Ray