Basically want to make a macro script

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 13/11/2014 7:18 p.m., Casey wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 02:58:02 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
> wrote:
>> On 13/11/2014 3:45 p.m., Israel wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> At this point in time, I have no plans for such a library. However if
>> somebody wishes to implement under the devisualization org, I'm happy
>> to help.
>
>
>
> It's great to have you two joining in on this thread!  I'm
> excited to see how helpful you have all been, it's really
> encouraging me to learn more about this.  Two of you guys have
> noted that D and C++ might not be the right languages for my
> purposes.  If they won't work for it, could you make some other
> suggestions?  I'd really prefer to make it work in D, but if it's
> not worth the trouble I'm more than happy to switch to something
> simpler.  Thanks for your dedication all!

D shouldn't be the limiting factor here. Neither would c/c++.
At the end of the day you need to interface with the low level apis such 
as WinAPI. It might be directly with your own event loops ext. Or it 
could be indirectly via a wrapper library.

I did find this [0]. I don't know what state its in for 
compilating/running ext. But it might give you a good starting point.

[0] https://github.com/pythoneer/XInputSimulator