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You'd do the same thing that a user would. You'd have to click on a window or an icon on the task bar or use whatever other actions a user woudl to make an application active. Eggplant can only send mouse and keyboard events to the SUT -- it has no backdoors to interact with the system.

That could help, but there's no definitive answer. I can say that Eggplant Functional is only sending the events that you have scripted -- it's the KVM that is producing the duplication. I guess I would start by increasing the Next Key Delay setting, although it's possible (although counterintuitive) that increasing the Key Down Delay could also have a beneficial effect.

As seen here under "Function Keys" (http://docs.testplant.com/ePF/using/epf-typetext-keywords.htm) it should just be 

Typetext f5

Loving Eggplant as always, so here's another great idea - some text/collaboration functionality along the lines of Hydra ( http://hydra.globalse.org ), which allows:

Multiple users to view and edit the text of scripts[/list:u]

Syntax definition (indents, colorization, etc.) without embedding them in the source script file (which makes web viewing/text editing outside of Eggplant harder).[/list:u] Hydra's freeware, but not open-source. Still, there may be some interesting things there for the farmers of Eggplant to consider in their next violet vegetable!