[Tutor] Stuffing keystrokes into windows App.

[Christian Wyglendowski]

A quick google for "python sendkeys" turned this up:
http://www.rutherfurd.net/python/sendkeys/  Don't know if it works with
python beyond 2.1, but I imagine it would.

The following page has examples using the WSH COM interface to get to
sendkeys (that way you don't need to download a separate module).

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/activepython/544878

That should get you going!

Christian


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eddie Comber [mailto:python at comber.cix.co.uk] 
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 6:12 AM
> To: tutor at python.org
> Subject: [Tutor] Stuffing keystrokes into windows App.
> 
> 
> I have a 3rd party Windows app that does have a COM interface 
> but I can't work it all out.
> 
> I think I need just to bring the windows app to the focus and 
> stuff keystrokes into it.
> 
> Any suggestions as to how this might be done?
> 
> I think it will help a lot to look at this Excel Macro that 
> does what I want.
> 
>     AppActivate "LV-ST"
>     For j = 1 To 50
>         'THIS SENDS THE CONTENTS OF THE a(ITEMNO) WITH A 
> CARRIAGE RETURN
>         'CHARACTER (y) THEN BACKSPACE
>         SendKeys a$(j) & Chr$(13) & "y" & "{BS}", True
>     Next j
> 
> Tall order perhaps but
> thanks in anticipation,
> Eddie.
> 
> 
> 
>