Ok, so you are about to use my second suggestion. And, in fact,
that's great: you're apparently making an OS X-only thing (I said
"great" because simulating a keyboard shortcut is different on every
platform; it will save explanations (and I also don't know for Win32)).
Ok, I just tried that:
dim ae As AppleEvent
ae=NewAppleEvent("prcs","kprs","sevs") 'Send a Keystroke event to
System Events
ae.StringParam("----")=":" 'The key to send
ae.MacTypeParam("faal")="Kcmd" 'Use Command key
if not ae.Send then
MsgBox "System Events is not running. I don't know if that can
happen."
end if
Well, in my tests, I used Command-S in a timer and switched to
TextEdit. When the timer executed, a Save dialog appeared in
TextEdit, that's it! Now, it should also work with ":".
Hope this helps
Le 19 févr. 07 à 13:27 Soir, Lennox Jacob a écrit:
Thanks Arnaud,
I do not own the menu item.
I just added CocoaSpellChecker and it is invoked via a menu item
which I do not own. The menuitem has two sub menuitem invoked via
Command-: and Command-;
I would like to invoke these two sub mernu items via seperate
pushbuttons.
Kindly advise.
Lennox.
Arnaud Nicolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You have 2 ways of
achieving that.
If you own the menu item, then you may move the code from the menu
handler to a new method. Then, instead of invoking Command and colon
in your code, you simply call the new method (you also call the new
method from the menu handler so that the menu item does not break).
If you don't own the menu item or simply want to invoke a keyboard
shortcut, then you'll have to use a technique not built-in RB.
For instance, in MacOS X, you can invoke the "System Events"
application. It's an application made especially for AppleScript,
but, as you know, you can use AppleScript or Apple Events from RB.
Which one are you trying?
Le 19 févr. 07 à 04:18 Matin, Lennox Jacob a écrit:
Hello,
I would like to code a pushbutton to effect a menuitem Command and
colon, how can I do that?
Thanks.
Lennox
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