[PD] generatiing a keypress

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Dec 16, 2007, at 5:32 PM, Patrice Colet wrote:

> beau a écrit :
>> I have been converting midi into keystrokes with midiStroke for OS X
>>
>> http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/midistroke.html
>>
>>
>> I think on windows people are using:
>> http://www.midiox.com/
>>
>>
>> It would be great it pd could do this!
>>
>>
>
>   midiox program converts Keystrokes to MIDI Notes, it doesn't emulate
> keystrokes.
>
> There might be a trick to do this with macosx API ,like I did with
> windows API in [winkey]?
>
> PureData can do this on linux and now on windows with the help of
> different externals.
>   I bet many users would love to have a single external for both
> platforms, that uses the same parameters, same help file, the object
> would have then the same name, it wouldn't be x11key anymore but
> [keystroke] or something like this and would work on most platforms.
>   Aalex, what do you think?

Sounds like a great idea.  How about something like [send_key] or  
[type_key]?

.hc


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