emulating the keyboard - Application control

[John Rule]

Thanks for the response Ken.

After much Internet searching, I am coming to the conclusion that this is
not possible from Windows or Linux (not even from shell).

:-(

I did, however, find some useful things in XP that I didn't know existed:

SerialKeys and SoftKeyboard

:-)

Some kind of payoff at least!

John Rule


> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 22:15:13 -0700
> From: Ken Norris <pixelbird at interisland.net>
> Subject: Re: emulating the keyboard - Application control
> To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
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> 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...
> -----------
> 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.
>