Re: Using AppleEvents to copy and past text from any application

2010-01-05 Thread Dave DeLong
Yep: CGEventSourceRef source = CGEventSourceCreate(kCGEventSourceStateCombinedSessionState); CGEventRef pasteCommandDown = CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent(source, (CGKeyCode)9, YES); CGEventSetFlags(pasteCommandDown, kCGEventFlagMaskCommand); CGEventRef paste

Re: Using AppleEvents to copy and past text from any application

2010-01-05 Thread has
On 5 Jan 2010, at 21:41, Jesse Grosjean wrote: > Last, how would I go about sending Cmd-C/Cmd-V keystrokes directoy to > another application? Haven't done it myself, but I would guess CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent() and friends would be simplest. HTH has -- Control AppleScriptable applications

Re: Using AppleEvents to copy and past text from any application

2010-01-05 Thread Jesse Grosjean
> Services no good? Well originally I dismissed them because my understanding is that they are meant to work in place. So there would be no time for the user to do there work in the external editor. But now that I think about it I could maybe use services in a bit more tricky manner. For example m

Re: Using AppleEvents to copy and past text from any application

2010-01-05 Thread has
Jesse Grosjean wrote: > I'm developing a small open source app called QuickCursor. [...] Services no good? Only alternative I can think of would be to send Cmd-C/Cmd-V keystrokes, and hope that the user has the right text selected at the time. has -- Control AppleScriptable applications fro

Re: Using AppleEvents to copy and past text from any application

2010-01-05 Thread Nick Paulson
If you have a solution to this, please report back. I am interested in what you come up with. --Nick Paulson On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Jesse Grosjean wrote: > I know most apps don't support AppleScript directly, but I thought > there was some way to automatically script the menu items of mos

Re: Using AppleEvents to copy and past text from any application

2010-01-05 Thread Jesse Grosjean
I know most apps don't support AppleScript directly, but I thought there was some way to automatically script the menu items of most apps. But wait... I bet I can already call those menu items through the accessibility API anyway! So I guess I probably don't need AppleEvents. Thanks for your respo

Re: Using AppleEvents to copy and past text from any application

2010-01-05 Thread Jean-Daniel Dupas
Le 5 janv. 2010 à 16:46, Jesse Grosjean a écrit : > I'm developing a small open source app called QuickCursor. > > - http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor/ > - http://github.com/jessegrosjean/quickcursor > > The idea is to replace the input manage based "edit in" features with > a

Using AppleEvents to copy and past text from any application

2010-01-05 Thread Jesse Grosjean
I'm developing a small open source app called QuickCursor. - http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor/ - http://github.com/jessegrosjean/quickcursor The idea is to replace the input manage based "edit in" features with a generic program that provides the same feature, but using public A