Whats the purpose of a Keyboard Emulator?
Altek Instruments manufacture a device to enable computers to be controlled automatically by a pre written script. We call it The Mule. The Mule is used for a variety of processing and control purposes and for auto entering data into software applications. The Mule is flexible because it works by exact emulation of a human typing at a keyboard. If you can do the job from a keyboard then you can automate it with The Mule. To make control of The Mule easy there is a free application – Dispatcher. The Dispatcher has a built in scripting language called Bray. In order to emulate the Non ASCII keys like the Function Keys it is often necessary to enter scancodes into a Bray Script In the past it was necessary to look up each key code in a scancode table. Then work out and append the appropriate release code and string it all together. This was time consuming and prone to error. By using the Keyboard Emulator you can see in real time the scancodes a real keyboard would produce. The output fro
