Am So, den 14.03.2004 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] um 13:57: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Marc Santhoff wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > I'm trying to put some key event in the general message queue of an > > application. Think of simulating key presses. Some keypresses should be > > sent to the window and appear in the focussed widget. > > > > On windows there is (or at least was years ago) the "sendkeys()" > > function. > > This is actually a Visual Basic function :-)
Oops! Sounds like "Jehova" ;) But i had a unit for Delphi some years ago doing this task. IIRC this was Delphi 1 on win3.1 or Delphi 2. > > Does the fcl or gdk/gtk-binding offer similar possibilities? > > No. SendKeys() works by grace of sending windows messages to a window > handle. You would need to find the right window handle and send an X event > to it. But to my knowledge, GDK doesn't offer this possibility. I'm not an > expert, though. > > > > > Until now i found the function "gtk_signal_emit", but it only does > > trigger registered events ... I'm stuck. > > I don't think that you should look at the GTK level, but at the GDK level. > Or even the X level. You're right. In the GDK docs i found "gdk_event_put" which should do. I did not have such nice access violation errors for a long time. =:-() But it seems to be a lack of documentation. I hoped for some sort of virtual keyboard stuff for fpc but found nothing. Thank you anyways, Marc _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal