[Pythonmac-SIG] AESend and "Event Manager" events...

[Steve Spicklemire]

Thanks Joe!

I'm not sure that's the answer I was *hoping* for.. but it's an answer I can 
probably live with.

-steve

>>>>> "Joe" == Joseph J Strout <joe@strout.net> writes:

    Joe> Hi Steve,

    Joe> 	No, you can't send keystrokes with AESend.  The only
    Joe> way to do what you want is to muck about with the Event
    Joe> Manager directly, but even this won't work if the app you
    Joe> want to send keystrokes to is not the frontmost application.

    Joe> 	A better solution (i.e., less work for you and more
    Joe> reliable) is to use something like KeyQuencer or QuickKeys or
    Joe> Akua Sweets (the latter is free) to fake the keypresses and
    Joe> mouseclicks you need.  The first two are apps which are
    Joe> scriptable, Akua Sweets is an Applescript extension library
    Joe> which implements commands for all sorts of amazingly handy
    Joe> things.

    Joe> Cheers, -- Joe