> jim ruxton a écrit : > > Tried the external you sent Patrice. Thanks it works great. Thinking if > > I have a chance some time I'll add the code so you can just send an > > ascii character into it. I think I saw a window function that converts a > > character to the code your external takes. Anyway as it stands now its > > great so thanks a lot : ) > > Jim > > I am happy that this satisfies your need, it's my first external, this > topic was a good enough for making a try. > > In the other external I've called [keystroke], it fixes a major bug > found in the other one I've called [winkey] that could crash the > machine, and there is some documentation inside keystroke-help.pd about > the relationship between the number to enter and the correponding key. > You can also get this in msdn site. > > The numbers doesn't always correspond with the good keys, could you > help me about this, and give me which numbers are working with your > windows version? I'll have a look at this. Right now I am not using very many keys and they all seemed to work. spell from cyclone is useful in doing keyboard type patches. It takes text and converts a string to the ascii values. I had to use upper case characters since your external only accepts upper case ascii values since that is how the key codes are defined. I didn't want to get fancy yet and use shift etc. I think it would be great to create an external that takes ascii characters directly. I think you can then use vkkeyscan to convert to the key codes which your external takes. > > Maybe it would have been better to use SendInput() rather than > kbd_event(), but I haven't been able to figure out how to use the first. Have you looked at sendkeys . This could simpliy things as well. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8c6yea83.aspx > > We hope to make soon a cross-platform external, but keeping the number > option for the windows version should be handy. I'm just wondering if > the arguments for the objects should be the same on all platforms (lot > of work), or different arguments following the API (it seem simple to do). I could work with either. I wonder is there is a way to direct the keypress to the desired window (program) . Currently the cursur has to be in the window where you want to recieve keypresses. Maybe using the SetFocus http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms646312(VS.85).aspx or SetActiveWindow function you could direct the keyboard input to the desired application? I can see that the feature request is growing : ) . Congrats on writng your first external. I have yet to tackle one.
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