On 08/03/16 10:00, Benjamin Fishbein wrote: > Despite scouring stack overflow and other places, I can’t figure out how to > simulate key presses. > I’m using Mac 10.10.5. > Most answers to this involve sending keys to an element, but my problem is > that I have no element to send to; I’m trying to automate key presses for > choosing (browsing) a file in the Finder window. > Any help is much appreciated.
This is specific to your GUI toolkit, in your case Cocoa. You will need to look in the Apple documentation for Cocoa on the Apple develop site then see if the required functionality is made available in the Python Cocoa bindings available from the MacPython community. From my ObjectiveC Cocoa books it looks like you need to create a Key event using the +(NSEvent*)keyEventWithType: (NSEventType) type method. Another approach would be to use AppleScript via osascript as a subprocess. You can certainly automate the finder via that route. It might be easier than going in via Cocoa. I think there's a Python wrapper for osascript too. Not much direct help but maybe a pointer in the right direction... HTH -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
