Hello,

I'm wondering if it's possible to send a keyboard data (let's say, the letter "A") to an application other than Pd using a Pd patch ?
For example, is it possible to make a Pd patch allowing to convert a MIDI order from a MIDI controller, into the letter "A", and send this letter to the active application (let's say I'm in Word) ?

Thank you for your help !

you can convert midi data to letters using ascii code, for example with [tof/from_ascii_code] (and vice versa with [tof/to_ascii_code]). but you will need an application, you can interface with pd. i don't know, if this is somehow possible with word.

Hello,

Thanks for your help. Ok I see how to operate.

I'm wondering if it's possible to do such a Bome's MIDI translator, or MIDI stroke-like patch : with those two, the keyboard shortcut is sent "somewhere in the system", i.e. in a layer that is directly accessible by any active application. I don't think they use specific API for specific applications. This is my feeling as I used them with various applications without any additional stuff to install.
Thus do you think it will be possible to make an API between the MIDI->keyboard patch and any application ? an API taking the keyboard order, and putting it in "basic system layer=keyboard entrance" to where any application is constantly listening to ?
(you probably understand know that I'm not informatician... ).

Thanks bye