How Can I Write A Program Pressing a Key?

Hi i'm going to to use matlab for pressing keys when something changed in the screen (left arrow and right arrow keys specially), so what can i do for this? thanks

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Mahan - if you are using a MATLAB figure (which is the screen with something changing on it), you can assign a function callback to the WindowKeyPressFcn property of the figure. This callback would be called so long as the figure has focus. Try using the following code in a file saved as KeyPressFcnTest.m
function KeyPressFcnTest
close all;
h = figure;
set(h,'WindowKeyPressFcn',@KeyPressFcn);
function KeyPressFcn(~,event)
fprintf('key event is: %s\n', event.Key);
end
end
The event.Key will give you the name of the keyboard button pressed (rightarrow, leftarrow, etc.).

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assume that i have a page opened on google chrome and i want a left arrow be pressed every 5 sec,how can i do that?!
Does the left arrow interact with the open page on the Google Chrome browser? Please clarify what you are attempting to do.
yes,the left arrow inteact with the open page on the google chrome, sorry,my english is not very good

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