Selenium ide not recording keys - selenium-ide

I'm using the Selenium IDE in Chrome. It records clicking and opening pages just fine, but doesn't record any typing. It also doesn't send any typing either, the type and send keys commands show as being completed but don't actually type any keys in the browser.
The command looks like this:
send keys | //*[#class='ace_content'] | bob

The Chrome Selenium IDE is the new version, and it lacks a lot of features from the old version. To record the typing, have you tried to lose the focus of the field first? In the old one it only recorded those values when the field lose focus. Also, "sendKeys" don't work in the old version as well, i use the "type" command.

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I'm still studying for my computer science degree and have mostly focused on the mathematics side of things for now. However, in my current job I am working with Selenium IDE (specifically because it doesn't require coding knowledge) and I'm having a bit of trouble:
I need to test a Shift + click as well as a cherry-pick (Control + click) command on the web-based software we are creating, but it's not working. Manually pressing control and then clicking different elements on the screen works fine, however.
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Screenshot of the IDE command
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I have searched for this issue online and found no help that actually works for me yet, hence this post.
I am looking forward to your replies, in the hope that I can find success... :)
I think that it is a Selenium IDE original command problem.
When you tried to simulate pressing Ctrl key and used "controlKeyDown/Up" command, it just changed the boolean value and did not fired a real key down/up event. Also Shift and Alt key could not work.
Maybe you should try to add a "keyDown/Up" command after "controlKeyDown/Up" command and the target could be //body .
And, if you need, please try to use the tool, SideeX, the extended version of Selenium IDE. Maybe this problem will be solve in the future and make the test case flexible. Here is the link to SideeX and there are more details about the tool.
OK, I found the solution.
When compiling the tests I test them by running through them step by step to ensure that everything is working like it should, before saving it to a test suite and letting it run on it's own. Now, this involves me double-clicking every command in the Table one by one, in sequence, and keeping and eye on the screen to ensure that it executes and behaves exactly like I want it to. Simple, understandable, logical, correct?
Well, it seems like the controlKeyDown and controlKeyUp commands DO NOT WORK in this way.
I built a bare-minimum test case using only the 4 commands: click the element, controlKeyDown, click the next element, controlKeyUp. I ran through the test a hundred times with no success, but then I started thinking - what if the controlKeyDown command is never released? That would cause issues outside of the test (on the rest of the environment, obviously), since the Ctrl key would be permanently depressed. So I figured that the Selenium IDE either 1. Releases the key in a short amount of time automatically (faster than I can execute the command to click the next element manually) or 2. It simple ignores the controlKeyDown command if it's not run in a complete test case/suite.
So I took the 4-line test case, built up a test screen with test grid elements and ran the test case - and it works. Perfectly, actually.
So, in case anyone has similar issues in the future, try to RUN the test case instead of clicking through it or executing commands manually.

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I'm still not sure what caused my workspace to have this setting.
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Also, how are you creating and opening your Groovy files? Do you use the context menus or the Grails command prompt tool to issue orders like "create-controller"? If you're creating the files in some other way, try using those methods to generate them, and see if you get the same results.

Chrome console + text editor

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