Read keystroke and send unicode character to active window
lazarus / 34-Windows

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bruce.button · 2014-03-23 21:09

I would appreciate some guidance on the following:

Using Lazarus/Free Pascal, how would I read input from the keyboard
while an application is open and, depending on that input, send a
unicode character(s) to the open application. I've tried to find this
information on the Forum and using Google without success. It seems
one can use the Windows SendInput function, but I can't find
information on how to use this in Lazarus.

Thanks for the help!
Bruce

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typo · 2014-03-23 21:32

http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,8699.msg42019.html
#msg42019

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bruce.button · 2014-03-23 22:33

Thanks for the quick reply. However,

(1) that thread deals with sending a keystroke to an edit box (not an
application); and

(2) the packages referred to seem to deal with sending keystrokes (not
characters, including unicode characters).

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typo · 2014-03-23 22:58

What do you mean by "open application", is it an external application?

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bruce.button · 2014-03-23 23:12

Yes, it is an external application - word processor, notepad, or any
other application.

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typo · 2014-03-23 23:45

Maybe this can help:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7454417/send-text-to-other-
applications

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bruce.button · 2014-03-24 06:49

Thanks, I will work on that.