Sending keystrokes to another app

I wouldn't mess around trying to do this in Max. It can be done on
the Mac via the shell object, a lot ot escaping, and osascript, but
it's finicky, clunky and slow.

I think the old AEvents object was (and is?) OS 9 only.

On the Mac, MIDIPipe (google it) can be used to script, or send
keystrokes to, any app via AppleScript. To send keystrokes for
non-scriptable apps, a MIDIPipe AppleScript Trigger tool looks like
this:

on runme(message)
if (item 1 of message = 144) then -- note channel 1
if (item 2 of message = 127) and (item 3 of message = 0)
then -- note 127 velocity 0
tell application "Logic Pro" to activate -- app must
be in foreground to receive keystrokes
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Logic Pro" -- process name as per
Activity Monitor
        keystroke "n" using {command down, option down}
keystroke "x"
-- etc
end tell
end tell
end if
end if
end runme

--
John Pitcairn

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