How to fill the active field.

Scripting Forums AppleScript | Mac OS X
#1

How would I populate the current active field with text from the clipboard? When I run the script below focus is lost from the active field. Depending on the field, control + tab does not always work to re-select the field either.

set theText to the clipboard
tell application "System Events"
	keystroke theText
end tell
#2

Working example (assuming that you have open some text document and have clicked insert point in it initially. And you have some text in the clipboard):


set theText to the clipboard
tell application "TextEdit" to activate

tell application "System Events"
	keystroke theText
end tell

tell application "TextEdit" to activate

NOTE: WITH MODAL WINDOWS THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE (as with standard display dialog window of AppleScript).