Output Keyboard/Mouse Presses?

Question

In my program, I want to replicate the user pressing a key on the keyboard and mouse clicks.

Think about it like an auto-typer where the program types something in a word document over and over at various delays.

Any ideas on how to do this?

Thanks for your time.

What did you try by now? Please show your code, that does not work, or concrete problem. — vahancho, May 13 '14 at 07:09

Nejat · Answer 1 · 2014-10-09T04:36:06.460

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For simulating key presses you can use the QKeyEvent class which describes a key event and post that using QCoreApplication::postEvent.

QKeyEvent *event = new QKeyEvent ( QEvent::KeyPress, Qt::Key_Enter);
qApp->postEvent (receiver, event)

You can set the global position of the mouse by

QCursor::setPos(100,100);

Simulating the mouse events are like:

QMouseEvent * event = new QMouseEvent ((QEvent::MouseButtonPress), QPoint(500,500),
    Qt::LeftButton,
    Qt::LeftButton,
    Qt::NoModifier   );

qApp->postEvent((QObject*)this,(QEvent *)event);

edited Oct 09 '14 at 04:36

answered May 13 '14 at 08:18

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How can I make the receiver just global? – mrg95 May 13 '14 at 09:34
Nevermind, I decided to go with keybd_event from the MSDN documentation – mrg95 May 13 '14 at 09:51

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 13 '14 at 09:00

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I would suggest QTest namespace key and mouse simulation functions, e.g.

QTest::keyClick()
QTest::mouseClick()

You'll find documentation here

answered May 13 '14 at 09:00

mkrasowski

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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Look at my answer in the next topic. Answer has a link to OS depended implementation of Keyboard / Mouse event generation. It can be helpful for you.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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answered Oct 09 '14 at 04:53

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Output Keyboard/Mouse Presses?

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