On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 21:50:38 +0100, Peter Reid wrote: > I'm trying to create a floating screen keyboard application that will > allow me to use a mouse to "type" into other applications by clicking > on the keys in the floating keyboard. I'm trying to do this on a Mac > under OS X 10.4.x using Rev 2.8.1. > > For example, if I'm using a web browser on a projected image, I might > be using a mouse only and want to be able to type into the browser > URL address box. I have looked a the built-in OS X keyboard viewer > and it is too small, can't be resized and you can't use it to type in > capital letters! This is why I thought I'd see if I could make an > app in Rev that presented a scalable floating keyboard for mouse > entry of text. > > However, I can't see how I can send individual characters to whatever > is the currently active window as if they had been typed on the real > keyboard. > > Any suggestions please?
Well, you could look at using AppleScript to drive the System Events app to do GUI Scripting: http://www.apple.com/applescript/uiscripting/01.html Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution