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How to trigger a Copy in another application

Hi,

I have been wondering what the best way is to trigger Edit Menu commands in other applications. I noticed that in the Speech System Preferences (under the Text to Speech) tab there is a feature that allows the user to speak any selected text when a particular keyboard shortcut is used. When using that key combination the front application's edit menu briefly highlights, which implies that it triggers a copy. However, I am assuming it cannot trigger that copy through sending the cmd-C keyboard shortcut because the user may already be holding down say control-shift-K to trigger the speak selected text function so sending cmd-C would actually result in control-shift-cmd-C. Anyway, that is what I would imagine would happen. Does anyone here know how Apple does it and wether it is a public thing that other apps can also use? Perhaps I am missing something extremely obvious...

Thanks,

david.
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