Re: Sending text to frontmost app and active text field
Re: Sending text to frontmost app and active text field
- Subject: Re: Sending text to frontmost app and active text field
- From: KLW <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 10:56:44 -0500
Michael Deninger wrote:
I would like to send a text string (NSString) to the front most
application running (whatever that might be) and have it insert into the
active text field.
This doesn't sound like a good user experience to me. I would hate to be
typing away in Mellel or SubEthaEdit and suddenly have some alien text
string inserted between "Dear" and "Mom".
What would be the best way to accomplish this. I suppose I could use
Applescript, but I don't want to be dependent on this.
Actually, I think AppleScript is the perfect way to do it. Just send
your text string to the frontmost app wrapped in a try statement (in
case the app doesn't accept text input). You'll always be dependent on
something being on the system, so why not AppleScript? (Unless of course
you have a way of convincing all major application makers --Microsoft,
Adobe, etc--to listen for notification that you want to insert your
NSString.)
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