How to Simulate Keyboard Presses in Java

How to simulate keyboard presses in java?

java.awt.Robot might help.

Here's a simple sample code snippet from Java Tips:

try {
        Robot robot = new Robot();

        // Simulate a mouse click
        robot.mousePress(InputEvent.BUTTON1_MASK);
        robot.mouseRelease(InputEvent.BUTTON1_MASK);

        // Simulate a key press
        robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_A);
        robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_A);

} catch (AWTException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
}

How to simulate Keyboard press in java

You can use Robot for this, as shown in this example. To get {, for example, you'll need to do something like this:

keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_SHIFT);
keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_OPEN_BRACKET);
keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_OPEN_BRACKET);
keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_SHIFT);

Simulate keyboard press

You can try KeyListenerin java.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/events/keylistener.html

Java simulate keyboard INT input (Robot)

Simply use

    robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_0);
    robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_0);

There is no way to "truly" simulate that an integer comes from the keyboard. The keyboard delivers ascii characters, and it doesn't know which once that qualify as integers.

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