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RE: sending keypresses to another app
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RE: sending keypresses to another app

  • Subject: RE: sending keypresses to another app
  • From: Jerry LeVan <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 08:08:33 -0400
>I have an AppleScript which uses System Events to bring a particular
>app to the front, then execute a series of key presses.
>It works fine but is slow and difficult to implement elegantly from my
>Obj-C cocoa app.

Hi, I use a simple Applescript in Aqua Tcl/Tk to bring Wish to the front:

tell app "Finder" to set frontmost of process "Wish Shell" to true

Something like this only takes a couple of lines in Cocoa as I recall


--Jerry
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