Help with keyboard access

[andyjndm]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
I'm trying to make Turing press keys, in an auto-talker type manner, such as saying something like "Hello" every 30seconds when I run it.



What is the problem you are having?
I'm not too sure how to make it automatically type.

Describe what you have tried to solve this problem
This is my first step.


Post any relevant code (You may choose to attach the file instead of posting the code if it is too long)

Turing:

Please specify what version of Turing you are using
Turing 4.1.1

[Tony]

Are you asking about actually putting key presses into the keyboard buffer (as in keys that another program will read), or is this for something just within your own program?

[apomb]

you could make a loop and output "hello" with a 30 second delay?

seems completely pointless... but possible.

[andrew.]

Well if you mean for Turing to output "Hello" every thirty seconds, do something like this:

Turing:

loop     put "Hello"     delay (30*1000) % the time is in milliseconds, so you multiply by 1000 end loop

If you want Turing to type in another program, then it's not possible.

[andyjndm]

Tony @ Sat Dec 19, 2009 1:23 am wrote:

Are you asking about actually putting key presses into the keyboard buffer (as in keys that another program will read), or is this for something just within your own program?

Actually putting key presses into the keyboard buffer.
The actual goal of this is to be a runescape auto-talker, purely for boredom's sake.

[TheGuardian001]

In that case you're using the wrong language. Turing has little to no access to anything outside of itself.

[andrew.]

Try Java. It's not too hard to learn. Once you learn the basics, check out the Robot class. You can do this as well as control the mouse with it.