Is there a way to send keyboard keys to other windows?

[Bob Sneidar]

It's my opinion that it is outside the scope of what Livecode is. And as mentioned in other posts there are ways to hook into existing OS features to do this anyway. Livecode is not QuicKeys anymore that QuicKeys is Microsoft Office or Visual Basic or anything else. One Program to rule them all, and in the cpu bind them eh? Didn't we get rid of that blackguard at the end of the third age? :-)

Bob


On Sep 27, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Keith (Gulf Breeze Ortho Lab) wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> Thanks for all of the feedback. Actually, I have played around with AutoIt
> in the past, although I have never actually used it. Instead, I usually opt
> to use Visual DialogScript (see: http://www.dialogscript.com)... VDS is a
> somewhat defunct language/IDE these days, but still quite useful on
> occasion.
> 
> I was hoping that LiveCode had some kind of built-in capabilities for
> sending keys to Windows, Mac, and Linux applications. In my opinion, this is
> a feature that should be implemented in a future release.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> - Boo
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Roger Eller
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 1:13 PM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: Re: Is there a way to send keyboard keys to other windows?
> 
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Keith (Gulf Breeze Ortho Lab) wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for your response--and good information to know. However, I do need
>> a solution for Windows... Hmmmmm.
>> 
>> 
> On Windows, you can automate anything and everything (except thinking) with
> AutoIT.  System windows, buttons, fields, clicks, mouse movement, timing,
> etc. It's all there.  Oh, and it is FREE.
> 
> http://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/
> 
> ~Roger
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