[PD] generatiing a keypress

[Patrice Colet]

jim ruxton a écrit :

> type patches. It takes text and converts a string to the ascii values. I
> had to use upper case characters since your external only accepts upper
> case ascii values  since that is how the key codes are defined. I didn't
> want to get fancy yet and use shift etc. I think it would be great to
> create an external that takes ascii characters directly. I think you can
> then use vkkeyscan to convert to the key codes which your external
> takes. 
>>   Maybe it would have been better to use SendInput() rather than 
>> kbd_event(), but I haven't been able to figure out how to use the first.
> Have you looked at sendkeys . This could simpliy things as well.
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8c6yea83.aspx

  This method looks far better, thank you, I'll try to use it...

> I could work with either. I wonder is there is a way to direct the
> keypress to the desired window (program) . Currently the cursur has to
> be in the window where you want to recieve keypresses. Maybe using the
> SetFocus http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms646312(VS.85).aspx
> or SetActiveWindow function you could direct the keyboard input to the
> desired application? I can see that the feature request is growing : ) .

  SetFocus() is interesting, and would be used with a bunch of other 
methods like GetWindow(), GetChildWindows(), for choosing which windows 
will be focused. Now I'd be interested to know how to do it with X11.