A little help please [keystroke]

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#1

hello, im new to AppleScript, and I’d like to know how to make a script to dump a bunch of random words into whatever app happens to be open at the time using the System Events keystroke thing

#2

Hi,

if you mean something like “lorem ipsum” text,
take a look at lipServiceX

#3

You want to GUI type to front most application. Two ways, I like first when.

--Just to make sure you are somewhere that except type
tell application "TextEdit"
	activate
	make new document
end tell

-- Get the Frontmost then tell
tell application "System Events"
	set {FrontMostProcess} to processes whose frontmost is true
	tell process FrontMostProcess
		keystroke "AppleScript is cool"
	end tell
end tell

--Tell Directly
set MyVariable to " and there are different ways to do things."
tell application "System Events"
	tell (processes whose frontmost is true)
		say "I'm Typing"
		keystroke MyVariable
		delay 2 --wait for the GUI to do its thing before next step
		keystroke " Now you expand from here..."
	end tell
end tell

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