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...!
Thanks,
Rob
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 -
Thanks; could anyone point me in the right direction to generate said keyboard event?!
Rob
On 11/22/06, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de wrote:
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 -
See the class comment of EventSensor.
- Bert -
On Nov 22, 2006, at 18:26 , Rob Rothwell wrote:
Thanks; could anyone point me in the right direction to generate said keyboard event?!
Rob
On 11/22/06, Bert Freudenberg < bert@freudenbergs.de> wrote: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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