Brass Plugins: Mime
Supported Directives: Keyboard,
Simple keypress
This directive sends multiple keypresses to the
target application. Please read the important technical note on
sending brackets at the end of this page.
The format of the directive is:
keys to send
There is no need to separate keys by the %% delimiter.
Examples
Send "Brass is great!", press the Enter key, and "I
love it!" to an application
Brass is great!%%[RET]%%I
love it!
Emulate pressing ALT F, then X to exit an application
[ALT]f[/ALT]%%x
Technical Notes
This directive should be self explanatory. The
keypress is emulated in the target application. You can use this
directive to create gesture macros for things you type regularly.
Imagine you have a standard signature that you
use in Outlook for emails, in GMail for webmail and on forums for
your posts. Normally you would have to set up individual signatures
for each of these.
Instead you can create an action that applies to
all applications (ie: has no criteria). If your signature was:
-Joe
Bloggs
(Supreme Commander of the World)
You could create a directive as follows:
-Joe Bloggs%%{RET}%%(Supreme Commander of the World)%%{RET}
Now any gesture with this directive will automatically
insert your signature wherever you make it.
Important note on escaping brackets
Sometimes you might want to start a simple keypress
directive with a [ or { . But as you already know these brackets
are used to specify the start of a directive. To begin a simple
keypress with a bracket you must escape it with a backslash:
\[This text will be in
brackets]%%{RET}
This directive would output:
[This
text will be in brackets]
The same is true for curly braces:
\{This text will be in
brackets}%%{RET}
This directive would output:
{This
text will be in brackets}
Finally the same is true for keypresses in [ALT] or [CTRL] modifiers.
This directive sends the equivalent of holding ALT and pressing
[
[ALT]\[[/ALT]
Another example would be to emulate holding CTRL and pressing [
then G and H:
[CTRL]\[GH[/CTRL]
You only need to escape a bracket if it's the first character in
a string. Examples:
Correct:
[ALT]ab[c[/ALT]
Incorrect:
[ALT]ab\[c[/ALT]
Correct:
abc{def%%[RET]
Incorrect:
abc\{def%%[RET]
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