Faking keypresses on Mac OS X
Ben Rubinstein
benr_mc at cogapp.com
Wed Feb 27 07:45:47 EST 2008
Does anyone know of a way to send a keypress into the system from Rev -
natively or with extensions?
Obviously transcript includes a mechanism to move the user's mouse cursor; but
I'm not aware of a similar mechanism to in effect type a key for them (or, for
that matter, to click a mouse button for them). Have I missed anything?
Assuming not, has anyone tried to do this, eg using an external, or using a
helper app of some kind?
(Context: I'm using Rev to make a kiosk browser app; in some instances
there'll be no keyboard, so I want my app to provide an on-screen keyboard
instead. There are plenty of third-party options for on-screen keyboards, but
it would be much neater if I could build it in Rev so that it can be nicely
integrated; but when the user clicks on "A", I need to send that keypress to
the RevBrowser instance.)
TIA for any suggestions,
- Ben
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