Re: Allow missing components (or detect them in project)

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 17/01/2026 à 17:48, Benoît Minisini a écrit :
> Le 17/01/2026 à 16:59, Bruce Steers a écrit :
> >     Why don't you just use an event observer to catch the keyboard
> >     events on
> >     the editor?
> >
> >     And in that cas which private variable would you need?
> >
> >     --     Benoît Minisini.
> >
> >
> > It's not the getting of the event it's the giving.
>
> Ah, now I remember, we already talk about that. If I remember correctly, 
> I said that I should add a way inside the GUI component to inject a fake 
> keyboard event, so that you don't have to do any trick to make macros.
>
> Is there an issue tracker for that request? I don't think it's very 
> difficult to implement that. But of course the fake key event may be 
> available only locally, and for controls written in Gambas. I will see...
>
> Regards,

Hi,

I have added 'Key.Send()' in the last commits, that send a fake keyboard 
event to the current active control (two actually, one 'KeyPress', and 
one 'KeyRelease').

It takes a string shortcut as argument, something like that:

Key.Send("A")
Key.Send("é")
Key.Send("CTRL+C")
Key.Send("CTRL+ALT+DEL")

You should pass it directly what you get from 'Key.Shortcut'.

Normally, you should be able to get rid of a lot of hacks with that!

Regards,

--
Benoît Minisini.