emulating the keyboard - Application control

Ken Norris pixelbird at interisland.net
Wed Apr 14 01:15:13 EDT 2004


Hi John,

> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 20:41:19 -0700
> From: "John Rule" <johnrule at rcsprogramming.com>
> Subject: emulating the keyboard - Application control
> 
> Is there a native way to emulate the keyboard in another application? For
> example, 'launching' another app, and then somehow sending commands to that
> application? Specifically, I had a customer ask me if they can control their
> Powerpoint presentation from Rev. I looked through the shell command set,
> and I do not see a way to do it from there...
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Well, if it's a Mac OS, and the application in question is scriptable via
AppleScript, i.e., it has an AS dictionary, then you can send it any of it's
available commands through AS, manipulate data from it in RR, etc.

But if it's Windows, or a 'nix flavor, I'm afraid I have no clue.

HTH,
Ken N.




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