Re: How to create an NSEvent for Option-E?

• Subject: Re: How to create an NSEvent for Option-E?
• From: Glen Simmons <email@hidden>
• Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:51:34 -0500
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On Aug 30, 2006, at 12:40 PM, Uli Kusterer wrote:

Am 29.08.2006 um 23:03 schrieb Glen Simmons:

NSEvent* fakeEvent = [NSEvent keyEventWithType:NSKeyDown
location:NSZeroPoint
modifierFlags:0x80120
timestamp:0
windowNumber:[[NSApp mainWindow] windowNumber]
context:nil
characters:@""
charactersIgnoringModifiers:@"e"
isARepeat:NO
keyCode:14];
[NSApp postEvent:fakeEvent atStart:NO];

This throws an exception: *** -[NSCFString characterAtIndex:]: Range or index out of bounds

Why? What's wrong with this code? How can I send an event for Option-E?

I guess AppKit isn't prepared to get an empty string for the characters: parameter? Why do you need to do this anyway? What is Option-E? On my keyboard, that's the Euro-sign, so you'd neither want to use this as a keyboard shortcut, not would you want to use a fake event to generate the character (Because it may be different depending on the keyboard, and NSEvent won't auto-fill the characters: param, which can cause application code to detect this as the wrong key...).

What are you trying to do?