How send unicode character to active application?

Question

I need something like SendInput in Windows API.

I see this method, I don't know there is anyway to convert unicode character to virtual Key code.

CGEventRef CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent ( CGEventSourceRef source, CGKeyCode virtualKey, bool keyDown );

You can use SendInput to send unicode characters, but you are limited to UTF-8 since you are limited to a short for wScan. You need to set wVK to 0x00 and set the use unicode flag(0x0004) in dwFlags. — CaulynDarr
– CaulynDarr, Commented Jan 8, 2013 at 18:48

user486134 · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-05 17:31:12Z

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CGEventRef e = CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent(NULL, NULL, true); CGEventKeyboardSetUnicodeString(e, unicodeStringLength, unicodeString); CGEventPost(kCGHIDEventTap, e);

answered Aug 5, 2011 at 17:31

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JWWalker Over a year ago

It doesn't look right to pass NULL as the second parameter of CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent, because it's not a pointer. It happens to work, because the NULL is treated as zero, which is a valid key code. Also note that you should say CFRelease(e) at the end.

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