Re: Puppeting/Automating one application from another?
Re: Puppeting/Automating one application from another?
- Subject: Re: Puppeting/Automating one application from another?
- From: "Henry McGilton (Boulevardier)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:39:32 -0800
On Feb 16, 2010, at 6:31 PM, James Trankelson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to figure out the general feasibility of the following task.
>
> Imagine I have two separate applications, running side by side. Is it
> possible to take all of the mouse/keyboard inputs that are going into
> one of these applications, and send them to the other in a way that
> would allow me to 'control' the other app from the events generated in
> the first? I took a few steps to begin creating an infrastructure to
> support this, but then became concerned that I'd soon have issues with
> focusing, like if pressing buttons in the 'puppeted' application would
> take away the focus in the application sending the events.
>
> Does anyone know if something like this is possible? If so, does
> anyone know of any applications that do this, or have any pointers
> that could help me with this?
The first thought off the top of my head was NSDistributedNotificationCenter.
Should be possible to flange up a mini-application to test the idea . . .
Cheers,
. . . . . . . . Henry
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