Faking keypresses on Mac OS X

[Stephen Barncard]

TYPE doesn't do what you want?

this has been around since the begnning of xtalks.

>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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