Virtual Key Names

TeemTalk Virtual Key Name Functions

TeemTalk provides additional virtual key name functions for special tasks such as sending text to a file or the serial port, and reading text from a file to place in the keyboard buffer as if typed.

Key Function

Start Send Text sequence Start Read Text sequence End Send/Read Text sequence Delay (nnn = tenths of a second)

Virtual Key Name

VK_FILE_O VK_FILE_I VK_FEND VK_SLEEPnnn

The following sections describe how to use these virtual key names.

Sending Text To A File

<VK_FILE_O><filename>data string<VK_FEND>

will write the data string to filename. If the file already exists it is replaced.

For example,

<VK_FILE_O><c:\file.txt>text to enter to file_013_010next line of file<VK_FEND>

will create a file called file.txt containing the following two lines of text:

text to enter to file next line of file

Sending Text To The Serial Port

The following command will send text to the serial port:

<VK_FILE_O><com1:>text to send to serial port_013_010next line<VK_FEND>

which will result in the following being sent:

text to send to serial port<CR><LF> next line

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