[Newbies] Send a global keystroke from code

2006-11-22 Thread Rob Rothwell 

Hello--

I am playing around with a serial port barcode scanner.  The SerialPort
class is pretty straightforward and I can read the input, but is there a way
to then turn that input string into keystrokes that would just be sent to
the active window in Squeak?

All I really want to do is start a task that watches for serial input and
simulates global keystrokes as if the user was typing.

I imagine the answer to this question will greatly enhance my understanding
of events in Squeak...!

Thanks,

Rob

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Re: [Newbies] Send a global keystroke from code

2006-11-22 Thread Bert Freudenberg 

See the class comment of EventSensor.

- Bert -

On Nov 22, 2006, at 18:26 , Rob Rothwell wrote:

Thanks; could anyone point me in the right direction to generate  
said keyboard event?!


Rob

On 11/22/06, Bert Freudenberg  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Nov  
22, 2006, at 8:12 , Rob Rothwell wrote:


 Hello--

 I am playing around with a serial port barcode scanner.  The
 SerialPort class is pretty straightforward and I can read the
 input, but is there a way to then turn that input string into
 keystrokes that would just be sent to the active window in Squeak?

 All I really want to do is start a task that watches for serial
 input and simulates global keystrokes as if the user was typing.

 I imagine the answer to this question will greatly enhance my
 understanding of events in Squeak...!

Add your generated keyboard event to

Sensor eventQueue

- Bert -





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The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise  
reject what they think, not what they see.  -- Huang Po



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