input-emulator v0.8

Changes since v0.7:

• Fix mouse scroll feature

• Add --type-delay to start option for keyboard

  Makes it possible to configure type delay in milliseconds. Default value
  is 15 ms.

• Add mouse test example

• Add mouse and keyboard stress tests

• Update examples

• Fix status print of mouse y-max value

• Use abstract socket for client/server communication

  Use abstract socket for client/server communication instead of a socket
  file. This way we avoid being unable to start the service because of a
  stale socket file being left from a potential crash or if someone killed
  the service without proper shutdown.

input-emulator v0.7

Changes since v0.6:

• Rename mouse actions

  Rename 'mouse click' to 'mouse button'
  Rename 'mouse down' to 'mouse buttondown'
  Rename 'mouse up' to 'mouse buttonup'

  README and code updated accordingly.

  The new mouse action naming follows the keyboard action naming for
  better consistency.

input-emulator v0.6

Changes since v0.5:

• Add meson option to enable runtime debug output

  Add meson option 'enable-debug' which enables runtime debug output when
  set to true. Default value is false.

• Update README

• Add mouse and touch config details to status

• Make communication more robust

  Make communication more robust by reworking the communication transport
  mechanism to use a socket instead of messages queues.

  This should solve the issue of the occasionally missing letters when
  using the keyboard simulator.

input-emulator v0.5

Changes since v0.4:

• Add kbd and mouse example

• Rename keyboard-test.sh -> kbd-test.sh

• Fix server/client communication

• Update README

• Update keyboard example

input-emulator v0.4

Changes since v0.3:

• Make sure commands are performed synchronously

  When scripting commands, request messages would pile up and overflow the
  message queue resulting in crash or errors. To avoid this we now wait
  for each command to finish (wait for ok response) before firing the next
  command.

• Fix stop command crash

• Wait for service to be fully initialized before exit

  To prevent command-line client from making request before service is
  fully initialized.

• Make sure only one client is talking to server at a time

• Update kbd example

• Update README

• Remove lua script code

  Can be reintroduced if needed. For now everything is perfectly
  scriptable via command-line commands.

• Add 'mouse scroll ' command

• Add bash completion script

• Add alias_to_key() and more aliases

• Move code to keyboard

input-emulator v0.3

Changes since v0.2:

• Add more key aliases

• Add support for 'stop all' command

  Introduce 'stop all' command which will destroy all input devices which
  will make the daemon quit (daemon automatically quits when there are no
  more input devices online to maintain).

input-emulator v0.2

Changes since v0.1:

• Add LICENSE file

input-emulator v0.1

First release!

Sponsored by DEIF A/S I have expanded the keyboard-simulator to also
manage creation of virtual mouse and touch input devices through which
high level mouse and touch actions (movement, clicks, gestures, etc.)
can be performed via command-line or script. This is particular useful
for test automation.

Similar actions can be performed with existing tools but they are either
bound to X (eg. xdotool) or operates with low level events
(evemu-create, evemu-event, etc.) which make automation not as easy.

A lot of code and new features have been added - too much to sumarize
here. See the README or man page for more details.

The new changes have resulted in the script feature being broken for
now but it will eventually be fixed.