How to simulate a key press via macro

[gkick]

Hi all,

How can one assign a key press combination to a macro. For example I would like to have a button which simulates ctrl Q was pressed instead of using the keyboard ?
Thanks for your thoughts

[JeJe]

Do you mean you want to do what ctrl+q does? Using the macro recorder...

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sub Main
rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
rem define variables
dim document   as object
dim dispatcher as object
rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
rem get access to the document
document   = ThisComponent.CurrentController.Frame
dispatcher = createUnoService("com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper")

rem ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:Quit", "", 0, Array())


end sub

[JeJe]

If you want to do anything else with ctrl+q you can reassign that shortcut to a macro.

If you really want to simulate that keypress combination then you'll need to use the Windows Api by declaring the appropriate functions at the top of a module

Edit:

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php? ... t-Function

[gkick]

@ Jeje, thanks for the info and link, yes Assigning ctrl q to a macro would be my preferred choice. Do I need to find the keycode or modifier somewhere to do this?
Is there away to this via Tools,Options, Keyboard?

Thanks

[JeJe]

Tools menu / Customise / Keyboard

In the Category listbox there is a choice of LibreOffice macros.

[gkick]

Thank you Jeje, however I may have been unclear. I know how to assign a macro to a key but what I really want is to assign the key to a macro sub. For that I need some reference a la key number or key name pseudo sub appclose blah,execute ctrl q, blah end sub

[Zizi64]

I know how to assign a macro to a key but what I really want is to assign the key to a macro sub.

Macro to a key - key to a macro ???????????????????????????
Sorry, I do not understand what is the difference...

[JeJe]

If you tell us more about what you're trying to achieve with this we might understand you. Otherwise we're back to my earlier answers.

[Zizi64]

For example I would like to have a button which simulates ctrl Q

Do you want to launch the default assigned "macros", functions of the hotkeys? There are API equivalent procedures, methods, functions, that you can call instead of "virtual hitting of some hotkeys".

Ctrl-Q = "quit" function. The actual document and the application window will be closed.

Macro equivalent:
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Closing_a_document
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=30357

Note:
You must examine (by your code) if the document is saved or not.

[Bill]

I would like to have a button which simulates ctrl Q was pressed instead of using the keyboard

Where is this button? Is it an icon that you want to add to a Toolbar? Do you want to click the button which then runs a macro that simulates pressing CTRL+Q and closes the document?

[Lupp]

My perception of the question is that the OQer wants to feed keyboard scancodes into the keyboard buffer (if such a thing still exists) and this way send them to the application having the focus.

If so https://duckduckgo.com/?q=send+scancode ... fsb&ia=web might help to find a starting point. Be careful, things will have changed over times!

It's really long ago (DOSage) that I sometimes made a few steps in this field.
However, the techniques will still be used - and needed for many purposes. After all there are barcode scanners, and I suppose their drivers feed scancodes into a keyboard buffer. When I still was a boy of 50, there existed a tool named 'AutoIt' (if I remember correctky) which may have been useful with such a task.
To be clear: I'm not informed about the current state insofar.

[gkick]

Thank you all for your valuable pointers and links!
Yes, the basic idea is to have a macro execute a keyboard event such as CTRL Q or other.
For composing such a macro I need either a keycode ala ASCII or a key name or the associated .uno:?
So does anyone know of any doco containing lists of key codes, key mapping

[JeJe]

I'm still not clear what you want to do.

Do you want to make the application quit?

Or do you want to do something else by calling ctrl + q? If so what?

What do you want to make LibreOffice do by this?

Edit:

Window's virtual keycodes are here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/window ... -key-codes

Just replace 0x at the start with &H to use those codes in Basic - with the Window API I linked to above.

[Lupp]

As I understood it, theOQer is looking for a (very reduced) version of what is known as a "virtual keyboard" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_keyboard). However he doesn't want to install and use extra software for it, but to get the basic functionality by user code inside AOO/LibO: A button's onExecuteAction as the sender simulating the keyboard in a sense, no physical channel/interface, and any object currently having the keyboard focus as the receiver, e.g.
If the button has set TakeFocusOnClick = NO this may work. Different "sensitive areas" could also be used. For me this thread is "over". The related dependencies in modern event-driven software and the OS specifics probably coming into the game are too complicated for me.