I am developing a virtual keyboard application. Everything works fine except that what ever i write is written into the present application only not the one that is running behind.
I fell this is because ROBOT class in java only works for the application context that creates it.
Is there a work around for this?
Here is the code, i am trying to write ls in the terminal that is behind my java application:
Robot robot = new Robot();
robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ALT);
robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_TAB);
robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_TAB);
robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_ALT);
robot.keyPress('l');
robot.keyRelease('l');
robot.keyPress('s');
robot.keyRelease('s');
robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);
robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);
judging from this example , the Robot
class is able to send keystrokes to external applications - but they will arrive at the topmost window
so you basically need to focus the window to which you want to have your keystrokes sent, there seems to be a variety of solutions for this, im guessing this one is the easiest :
https://stackoverflow.com/a/4782350/351861 :
Alternatively, you can write a VBScript to activate another application. For example:
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.AppActivate("Firefox")
Then use Runtime.exec from your Java app to execute the script.
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