Invoking KeyEvents to simulates keystrokes

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kaldrenon - 16 Aug 2006 04:44 GMT

Hey all.

I'm a gamer, and I can get absorbed by whatever game I'm playing fairly
easily. So I want to write a program that can take a given time and, at
that time, force the computer to Alt-Tab out of the program, or
simulate some other series of keystrokes. I can handle setting up the
multiple options on my own, but I want to know - can I simulate
keystrokes using calls to KeyEvent. If so, how, and if not, what should
I do instead?

Thanks in advance.

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Thomas Weidenfeller - 16 Aug 2006 09:18 GMT

> If so, how, and if not, what should
> I do instead?

Consider using C instead of Java, since it gives you better access to
the system. And I would assume you have to do some type of system
programming to get it right.

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Oliver Wong - 16 Aug 2006 22:10 GMT

> Hey all.
>
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> keystrokes using calls to KeyEvent. If so, how, and if not, what should
> I do instead?

Use a robot: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/awt/Robot.html

- Oliver

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kaldrenon - 17 Aug 2006 00:56 GMT

> > Hey all.
> >
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>
> - Oliver

Thanks Oliver. The Robot works great, I used JButton with a RobotButton
subclass, gave it a Robot and an array of ints, and passed in an array
of KeyEvent.VK_** for the series of key presses I needed.

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