B4A Library SendInput - Emulate user input within your app

SendInput Library v0.2

* v0.2 31/03/2014
Added: SwipeParams - Now allowing the delay between each swipe pulse to be increased or decreased.
Moved: 'Step' parameter from SendSwipe to SwipeParams


This library allows you to emulate user input within the application. You can send key codes, a string of keys, a single touch tap, and swipe actions.

To begin using the library you simply define a variable:
B4X:
Sub Globals
    ' define a variable for the SendInput library
    Dim si As SendInput
End Sub

That's all. The following commands can now be used to send/emulate user input:

B4X:
' Send a single keycode
si.SendKeyCode(KeyCodes.KEYCODE_TAB)

' Send a string of keys
si.SendKeys("Hello")

' Send a touch tap to absolute coordinate 300,200
si.SendTap(300,200)

' Send a swipe action from absolute coordinates 60,70 to 200,300
si.SendSwipe(60,70 , 200,300)

' Change the swipe parameters.
' Here, the steps between each swipe point are set to 50 and the
' delay between each swipe point to 25ms.
' NOTE: It may be necessary to increase the delay for older devices in order
' to allow time for the system to pick up each swipe point.
si.SwipeParams(50,25)

The download link (below) includes a demo to test out the library.

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Download the library from here - DOWNLOAD
 
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Beja

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Jim,
Thank you so much for this very very important library. This lib is specially important and useful for presentation and educational Apps.

God bless you!
 

carchek

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HI!
Your library is out of this world, just what I needed for my project!
But I have a question. How can I make, da app saves current location on screen and then after 5 seconds scrolls down until user presses a button?
I am using it as si.sendSwipe; And using it to scroll down a website opened in WebBrowser1.
Thanks.

Gregor
 

Jim Brown

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Hello Gegor,
You can achieve the above with a timer. See attached example.
Click Start AutoScroll button to begin the auto-scroll action. The webpage will scroll every 5 seconds.
Press the button again to stop the auto-scrolling.
 

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Jim Brown

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Library updated. Added a SwipeParams setting applicable for the swipe action.
Note that the SendSwipe() Step parameter has now been moved to the SwipeParams().
 
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G-ShadoW

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Is it possible to send 'service commands' with your library?
For example, on samsung mobile phone's you have many options for engineer menu.
*#0011# or *#197328640# etc, is this posible ?
I have try but without succsess.
 

G-ShadoW

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I have found a way to send non ussd commands like *#*#197328640#*#* all working ok (without your library)
but I cant send any command using si.SendKeyCode(KeyCodes.KEYCODE_MENU) etc...
can your library work also from service module ?
 

Jim Brown

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Hi G-ShadoW
My (simple) library can only mimic inputs to the program you create.
One idea, have you looked at Tasker in the Play store? This is a great tool and far more advanced in terms of allowing external control.
 

G-ShadoW

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Thx for reply, is there any other way to programaticaly send command for menu pressed?
 

Jim Brown

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Yes, but I don't have access to my PC for a while so I can't recall the name of the MENU keycode
Perhaps ...

si.SendKeyCode(KeyCodes.KEYCODE_MENU) ?
 

Jim Brown

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Does the sample demo work?
The SendKeys buttion runs a series of key strokes and single key clicks as follows:

B4X:
Sub btn_SendKeys_Click
    Select Rnd(1,8)
        Case 1 : si.SendKeys("Basic")
        Case 2 : si.SendKeys("Android")
        Case 3 : si.SendKeys("Hello")
        Case 4 : si.SendKeys(" ")
        Case 5 : si.SendKeys("123")
        Case 6 : si.SendKeyCode(KeyCodes.KEYCODE_DEL)
        Case 7 : si.SendKeyCode(KeyCodes.KEYCODE_MENU)
    End Select
End Sub
 

Herbert32

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Download the library from here - [URL='https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B1H1JEGSWcxjd3ZFWXRCclJYOXM&usp=sharing' said:
DOWNLOAD[/URL]

It seems that this Library has been deleted and stays in the authors Bin at google-drive.

Dear Jim, can you please make this library available again?

or maybe someone who downloaded it earlier can share it please?

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thank you in advance.
 

Herbert32

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Thank you, Jim,

it works perfectly on my target device with android 4.2.2

great to see how the community here helps
 
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