Placing text at cursor position (outside of current app)

[AlistairG]

For example my app has text which should be dropped in eg gedit at edit cursor position automatically.
Thanks,
Alistair

[fabienwang]

Ctrl+V ? ^^

Once you are outside your app, your app has no more control on your mouse or keyboard.

[AlistairG]

Ctrl+V ? ^^

Once you are outside your app, your app has no more control on your mouse or keyboard.

A double gut punch - there is no way I am able to incorporate hotkeys system-wide nor editor operations on other apps using FPC outside of Windows.
Delphi in windows does this, Glippy in Ubuntu which uses Mono does this, but FPC cant.
Sad I have progressed well up to this point to have to close the project down.
Thanks for confirming my thoughts.
Al

[Martin_fr]

Well, If you have proof that it is supported by the OS, then there will be a way.... but not necessarily an easy one.

You may have to do it from scratch for each OS, find the documentation of the OS (or Toolkit, like GTK), find out what API to call, maybe translate the c headers to pascal, and then call those functions.

Anyway, there is a MouseAndKeyInput package. It allows you to simulate mouse move, and key clicks. I have never tested it, and I do not know if it supports simulation across applications, yet it might...
If so, you may be able to send keystrokes...
But as I said, I never used it myself.

[AlistairG]

Hi mouseandkeyinput is simply that - it has a stringgrid which with the code enables movement of mouse and keys in input mode; once again not outside of the application/app minimized.
Thanks,
Alistair.