Faking keypresses on Mac OS X
Jim Sims
sims at ezpzapps.com
Wed Feb 27 13:32:03 EST 2008
On Feb 27, 2008, at 7:11 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote:
>
> So, thank you for the suggestion; but I'm still looking. Granted
> that 'type' exists, I'm more doubtful if there is anything else in
> Rev (though I'd still be delighted to be 'reminded' of something
> else that I'd 'forgotten'); does anybody know of ways to fake a
> keypress to the system? Evidently it's possible at a Cocoa or
> similar level, as there are various programs that for example allow
> you to use an apple remote and selectively map buttons on the remote
> to keypresses. But I don't even know how to do it at that level,
> and I was hoping to avoid writing my first external for about five
> years...
Might this work?
Put the chars you want onto clipboard in Rev - use a suitable time
delay (send in...)
the use an applescript which pastes into the topmost application.
Capiche?
sims
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