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How to Paste code to NoVNC.
// This will open up a prompt for text to send to a console session on digital ocean
// Useful for long passwords
(function () {
window.sendString = function (str) {
f(str.split(""));
function f(t) {
var character = t.shift();
var i=[];
var code = character.charCodeAt();
var needs_shift = character.match(/[A-Z!@#$%^&*()_+{}:\"<>?~|]/);
if (needs_shift) {
rfb.sendKey(XK_Shift_L,1);
}
rfb.sendKey(code,1);
rfb.sendKey(code,0);
if (needs_shift) {
rfb.sendKey(XK_Shift_L,0);
}
if (t.length > 0) {
setTimeout(function() {f(t);}, 10);
}
}
}
})();
# Minified Version:
(function(){window.sendString=function(a){function b(c){var d=c.shift(),g=d.charCodeAt(),h=d.match(/[A-Z!@#$%^&*()_+{}:\"<>?~|]/);h&&rfb.sendKey(XK_Shift_L,1),rfb.sendKey(g,1),rfb.sendKey(g,0),h&&rfb.sendKey(XK_Shift_L,0),0<c.length&&setTimeout(function(){b(c)},10)}b(a.split(""))}})();
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byjg commented Nov 30, 2021

Thank you @Girevik1

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digu087 commented Jan 7, 2022

Thank you for your solution , saved my day . Just one small issue , if I try to paste characters like !@#$%^&*()_+ it actually prints 1234567890-= . I was testing on firefox , Ubuntu OS .

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byjg commented Jan 7, 2022

Glad that helps you. These characters should be handled by this:

            var needs_shift = character.match(/[A-Z!@#$%^&*()_+{}:\"<>?~|]/);
            if (needs_shift) {
                rfb.sendKey(XK_Shift_L,1);
            }

It means, should "press" SHIFT and the key.

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m-primo commented Dec 30, 2022

This code doesn't support new lines

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byjg commented Dec 30, 2022

Did you try:

sendString("mychars\r\nother chars");  # Maybe your client accepts \r\n as new line. 

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m-primo commented Dec 30, 2022

Did you try:

sendString("mychars\r\nother chars");  # Maybe your client accepts \r\n as new line. 

Yup, tried \r, \n, \r\n.
And even tried rfb.sendKey(13, true). None worked, it feels like noVNC don't accept new lines in this function or something.

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