Steals focus from the app on OS X 10.14.3

[cboileau]

OS X 10.14.3.

I enabled accessbility access, when the keystrokes should be sent, I see "Keysender" show in the top left of the menu bar, and focus is taken away from the application that had focus. I've tried chrome, vscode, slack, and all of them lose focus when the key should be sent, and no keys appear sent.

[ordinov]

just add -Dapple.awt.UIElement=true where the package executes the jar file

it works in background on OS X

[ordinov]

#35

[mlrv]

For anyone interested in this issue, I've taken the liberty to fork this project and incorporate @ordinov's fix as a standalone package, you can find it here.

I needed something like this for a separate library, and this project doesn't seem to be actively maintained anymore.

[coda-nsit]

@mlrv I have a text file open and I run your forked library.

var nodeKeySimulator = require('node-keys-simulator');

nodeKeySimulator.sendKey('a');
nodeKeySimulator.sendKey('a');
nodeKeySimulator.sendKey('a');
nodeKeySimulator.sendKey('a');
nodeKeySimulator.sendKey('a');
nodeKeySimulator.sendKey('a');

nodeKeySimulator.startBatch()
    .batchTypeKey('N')
    .batchTypeKey('o')
    .batchTypeKey('d')
    .batchTypeKey('e')
    .batchTypeKeys(['N', 'o', 'd', 'e'])
    .batchTypeText('Node')
    .batchTypeKey('N', 1000)
    .batchTypeKey('o', 1000)
    .batchTypeKey('d', 1000)
    .batchTypeKey('e', 1000)
    .sendBatch().then(
        function(stdout, stderr) {
            console.log('success', stdout);
        },        
        function(error, stdout, stderr) {
            console.log('error', error, stdout, stderr);
        }
    );

Now the java icons don't appear but the program just silently exits without anything getting printed.