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Re: AXUIElementPostKeyboardEvent experience

Almost certainly AXUIElementPostKeyboardEvent post keyboard event is
sending the character to the app. I don't know for sure, but I bet apps in
the background do not respond to command-keys (which would make sense).

It sounds like you are using the wrong api in any case. If you want an app
to quit, then send it a quit appleevent. If you want to do a menu command
when the app is in the background then find the menu item with the
Accessibility api and post the AXPressAction.

Hope this helps,
jl

> I have AXUIElementPostKeyboardEvent working with the system-wide event. I
> can successfully bring TextEdit to the front and send Command-N to it, and
> TextEdit opens a new window.
>
> But I can't get it to work with an application element for a background
> application. When the same Command-N is sent to TextEdit in the background,
> the "N" appears in the text window and a new window is not created.
> Command-Q sent to TextEdit and a variety of other apps doesn't work, either.
> The background app is obviously seeing the character, but somehow it isn't
> seeing the command key. I know the command key is being sent, because I see
> the function being called on that branch of my code in the debugger, and the
> same code works in a parallel method using the system-wide element.
>
> Is this a known limitation of AXUIElementPostKeyboardEvent at this time?
> (I'm running Mac OS X 10.2.1 on this machine.)
>
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