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How can you fire a 'Media Key' event in Java?

Media keys can be hardware or vendor specific, unlike the normal keyboard keys, so they do not appear to be widely supported - especially in the JDK.

Regardless, can a media key event be fired within Java so that an open media player will respond as if the user has pressed the Play/Pause button on their keyboard, thus enacting a play/pause on the current media?

If no Java specific answers are available, I would still be interested to see any solutions for non-platform independent languages.

All the best.

Solution

  • You can use JNI to call a small C Function or maybe you can use the Java Robot class.

    Have a look at:

    Simulate a Keypress WinAPI - keybd_event

    List of Virtual Keycodes