Floating Screen Keyboard

[Ken Ray]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 21:50:38 +0100, Peter Reid wrote:

> I'm trying to create a floating screen keyboard application that will 
> allow me to use a mouse to "type" into other applications by clicking 
> on the keys in the floating keyboard.  I'm trying to do this on a Mac 
> under OS X 10.4.x using Rev 2.8.1.
> 
> For example, if I'm using a web browser on a projected image, I might 
> be using a mouse only and want to be able to type into the browser 
> URL address box.  I have looked a the built-in OS X keyboard viewer 
> and it is too small, can't be resized and you can't use it to type in 
> capital letters!  This is why I thought I'd see if I could make an 
> app in Rev that presented a scalable floating keyboard for mouse 
> entry of text.
> 
> However, I can't see how I can send individual characters to whatever 
> is the currently active window as if they had been typed on the real 
> keyboard.
> 
> Any suggestions please?

Well, you could look at using AppleScript to drive the System Events 
app to do GUI Scripting:

  http://www.apple.com/applescript/uiscripting/01.html


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/