Question

This might be a vague question, but I failed to rephrase it properly. So here’s an explanation.

I developed an app that was originally developed as a Mac application, using API’s from both Carbon/Cocoa to achieve my task. (The goal of the application is to send ‘keystrokes’ to an app after mouse movements / other keystrokes. I use Accessibility API’s for that).

But now, I want to add scripting support, so there can be conditional keystrokes. Such as: after 5 times of pressing ‘Y’, I want to press the button ‘B’.

Within OSX, there’s no possibility for a Python app to do such a thing, and I can’t find any libraries that allow me to do it. So I figured I’d make the app two-fold. First: I’ll write an app in Cocoa/Carbon with the basic functions: SendKeyToApp(pid,key) and WaitForMovement().

The python app will communicate with that app, using those method calls. The question here is: how do I communicate between those two apps? Will I use a HTTP Server, a Socket Server, some kind of subprocess.Popen() hacks. I frankly have no idea.

Does anyone have any ideas to achieve such a task?

Answer 1

Easier. I went to use Accessibility API’s from within Python, and it all allowed me to easily do this without any Cocoa / Carbon at all.

For the ones interested, it’s called atomac.