emulating the keyboard - Application control

[Ian Wood]

Is this on a Mac or on Windows?

I can't help with Windows, but with Mac OS 10.3 (or 10.2 with GUI 
Scripting installed) you can specifically send keystrokes using 
AppleScript:

Tell app "Powerpoint" to activate

tell application "System Events"
	tell process "Powerpoint"
		keystroke "S" using {control down, shift down} -- Starts the 
slideshow from the first slide
		delay 4 -- seconds
		keystroke return -- go to next slide
	end tell
end tell

Yes, PowerPoint  uses Control instead of Command on a Mac.

For more info about GUI Scripting:
http://www.apple.com/applescript/uiscripting/

Ian Wood

On 13 Apr 2004, at 04:41, John Rule wrote:

> Is there a native way to emulate the keyboard in another application? 
> For
> example, 'launching' another app, and then somehow sending commands to 
> that
> application? Specifically, I had a customer ask me if they can control 
> their
> Powerpoint presentation from Rev. I looked through the shell command 
> set,
> and I do not see a way to do it from there...
>
> I did do a search through the lists, and the closest tip I found was to
> convert Powerpoint to 'Keynote', and then export as a .mov file. Not a 
> bad
> idea, but not practical in my situation.
>
> Thanks for any info,
> John
>
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