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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.
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> 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
