# Ignition scripting

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 20, 2020, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-scripting/32450 "2020-02-20T03:50:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![witman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d2c977/32.png) [@witman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/witman)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2020, 4:12am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-scripting/32450/7 "2020-02-24T04:12:50Z")

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Do you want tapping the button to create an F7 key press? If so, you could try something like this in the actionPerformed event on the button:

```python
from java.awt import Robot
from java.awt.event import KeyEvent

robot = Robot()
robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_F7)
robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_F7)

```

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