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Continue after Robot has finished typing

843807Jun 25 2010 — edited Jun 25 2010
Hi,

I have found a basic example of the Robot class:
public class RobotExample {    
    public static void main(String[] args) {        
        try {            
            Robot robot = new Robot();
            // Robot start writting
            robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_H);
            robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_I);
            robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_SPACE);
            robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_B);
            robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_U);
            robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_D);
            robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_Y);            
        } catch (AWTException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    // Code that follows needs to ensure that the Robot has finished typing
    }
}
The code that immediately follows the Key Presses remove focus from where the robot is typing so it would be nice to detect when the Robot has finished typing before I continue. At the moment the best way I can think of would be to simply place all the Key Presses in a Thread, telling it to sleep once it had finished. The problem with that is there could still be a problem with the amount of time being too much or too little and no way of finding out.

Does any one have any ideas how I can listen to the Robot events and continue once they have finished?

Thanks
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