[Newbies] Send a "global" keystroke from code
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Wed Nov 22 10:03:02 UTC 2006
On Nov 22, 2006, at 8:12 , Rob Rothwell wrote:
> Hello--
>
> I am playing around with a serial port barcode scanner. The
> SerialPort class is pretty straightforward and I can read the
> input, but is there a way to then turn that input string into
> keystrokes that would just be sent to the active window in Squeak?
>
> All I really want to do is start a task that watches for serial
> input and simulates "global" keystrokes as if the user was typing.
>
> I imagine the answer to this question will greatly enhance my
> understanding of events in Squeak...!
Add your generated keyboard event to
Sensor eventQueue
- Bert -
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