B4J Question Send Key strokes to other application via B4j app?

omarruben

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Hello, is there any way to send keys (or string) from a B4j application to other app? In c# you can find the app base on the name of the open window and send the simulated key strokes. Trying to achive the same with b4j... than you
 
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omarruben

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still can't find anything to select the windows app to send the keys(or string)
I saw an example in pure Java:

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("notepad");

how to achieve it on B4j?
 
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Erel

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omarruben said:
I saw an example in pure Java:

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("notepad");
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This has nothing to do with your question.

jAWTRobot - invoke keyboard and mouse events, etc...

This library started out as a simple wrapper for Oracle's java.awt.Robot package but it evolved out of hand into a library of general utilities. Some of these functions appear to duplicate functionality already present in B4J however this library is designed to be used in both UI apps and non-UI...
www.b4x.com
 
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xulihang

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Autoit came to my mind firstly:

jAutoItX Library

Hello, About AutoIt and AutoIt4Java: AutoIt is a very useful automation scripting language for Microsoft Windows. It allows for GUI automation using a very simple syntax and can be useful for testing Windows applications. It is packaged with AutoItX which supports accessing AutoIt functions...
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You can send text to a window named Untitled with this code:

B4X: 
AutoItX.winActivate("Untitled","")
AutoItX.send("Hello",False)
 
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omarruben

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looks like this is the one I need, thank you all
 
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