gre.key_down


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gre.key_down(
    code,
    [channel]
)

Send a key_down event to the application with the scancode passed in the parameters. channel is an optional parameter

Parameters:
        code        The UTF-8 character code to inject
        channel     An optional Storyboard IO channel to send the event on, if not specified the
                    event is added directly into the current Storyboard application event queue
                    if neither the environment variable or global GREIONAME variable are set.
Example:

function CBSpaceDown()
    gre.key_down(0x20)
end

function CBSendSpaceDown()
    local success, error = gre.key_down(0x20, "my_channel")
    if(success == false) then
        print(error)
        --handle error
    end
end