Basically want to make a macro script

[Israel via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 02:00:11 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
> On 13/11/2014 2:37 p.m., Casey wrote:
>> On Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 01:35:28 UTC, Israel wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 12 November 2014 at 23:40:09 UTC, Casey wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'll look into that, it seems as it might work.  If D would 
>>>> be too
>>>> hard to get working, what would you recommend?  I would 
>>>> assume Ptyhon
>>>> or C++ would be good choices, any chance you can recommend a 
>>>> forum
>>>> for these or something?  It's hard to find any documentation 
>>>> on what
>>>> I am looking for.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> I tried to test out that de_window library but it doesnt work 
>>> out
>>> of the box.
>>>
>>> The guy who created it though does post in this forum so 
>>> maybe if
>>> he magically finds this thread he can help you and me out.
>>
>> That would be nice.  I'll see if there's a way to PM him about 
>> it.  Do
>> you have any other programming language recommendations in 
>> case this
>> doesn't work out?
>
> Sorry that functionality of de_window is out of scope of it. So 
> of course, it won't work for what you want, it just creates a 
> window and a context cross platform with input for that window.
>
> The functionality you are wanting is possible against winapi 
> and x11 fairly easily. Its just low level. Although X11 is a 
> little easier as it can be done via a program on cli.
> Unfortunately c/c++ will help you as much as D will in these 
> cases.
> If you run into trouble with those api's we can help you. But 
> you will need help, these are topics that aren't recommended 
> for a newbie.
>
> I'm not quite sure how to receive key presses from other 
> windows. Maybe Mike Parker (aldracon) has some ideas.

Do you have plans for making win32 bindings for the sendkeys?

Im interested in this too. Id like to do it with D but ive only
ever been able to accomplish this task with C# and InputSimulator.