Re: Macro control over QuickTime Player window in ImageJ?

Posted by jmutterer on May 22, 2007; 8:36pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Macro-control-over-QuickTime-Player-window-in-ImageJ-tp3699369p3699376.html

Ok, I just tested the patch on an AZERTY keyboard, and it won't work as
expected for letters. However, the arrows are working fine.

Jerome


On 5/22/07, jerome mutterer <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Dear all,
>
> You can find out which keyCode triggered by a specific key on a given
> keyboard by running ImageJ in debug mode and pressing this key.
> I have a patch to Gabriel's robot that allows to specify a given keycode
> in a the robot's keyPress string, including for example arrow keys.
> in the robotText parsing loop, add the following 4 lines
>
> else if (c == '&') {
>  kc = java.lang.Integer.parseInt(robotText.substring(i+1,robotText.indexOf
> (";",i+1)));
>  i=robotText.indexOf (";",i+1);
> }
>
> // just before :
>
> else
>  kc=KeyEvent.VK_PERIOD;
> //
>
> this way, you can use the following syntax to specify a keyCode in a
> string :
>
> ima&65;&71;eJ  should output 'imageJ'
>
> on my keyboard:
> left arrow is &37;
> right arrow is &39;
> up arrow is &38;
> down arrow is &40;
>
> Jerome
>
> On 5/22/07, Gabriel Landini <[hidden email]> wrote:
> >
> > On Tuesday 22 May 2007, you wrote:
> > > I also just found this note on the documentation for IJ_Robot:
> > > Note that in Mac OSX with an AZERTY keyboard, the typed string does
> > > not get interpreted correctly.
> >
> > Yes, there is something strange in the way that the keys are reported
> > using
> > different keyboards. A string does not necessarily correspond to a key
> > event
> > or to a character value, apparently. It seems to depend on the keyboard
> > one
> > is using. But I am not sure.
> >
> > I am sorry but I do not have a solution to that at the moment. I would
> > appreciate if anybody can clarify what is the relation between keyboard,
> > string, character and key event.
> >
> > > Does this mean that KeyPress will not work on any of my Macs running
> > OSX?
> >
> > You could do some test runs to male sure what string sends what key
> > press. If
> > one positions  the cursor in a text editor and sends the commands there,
> > one
> > can see what comes out.
> > I know that this is not ideal, but I hope it helps anyway.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Gabriel
> >
>
>