How can I gain access to the keyboard so that I can feed output from
my ruby program into an application that only accepts input via the
keyboard?
I want the application to think the input is coming from the keyboard
when it is really coming from a ruby program output.
Thanks for any help.
Is it a console or window application?
In the former case, a simple pipe should suffice, in the latter, you’re
probably looking at using OLE to run the application from within Ruby
and
fake keypresses using the Windows Scripting Host facilities.
require ‘win32ole’
app_window_title = “The App I Want To Type Into” @au3 = WIN32OLE.new(“AutoItX3.Control”) @au3.opt(“WinTextMatchMode”, 2) @au3.Run( “C:\Program Files\SomeApp.exe” ) @au3.WinWaitActive( app_window_title ) @au3.Send( “Some text to type to the application” )