Can I use automator to type text?

Question

I am looking for a way to fill in my email address in various types of online forms by using a shortcut. Can I use automator to insert an email address? If so, how? Is there a better way to do this, like an autocomple function? I am tired of typing my rather long email address everytime I need to insert it somewhere.

Answer 1

Hello Pierre L.
The bundle identifier is safer than name because application's executable name is not necessarily equal to the package name minus extension. E.g. Firefox.app => firefox.
--SCRIPT
tell application "System Events" to get bundle identifier of process 1 whose frontmost is true
tell application id result to activate
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "hello"
--END OF SCRIPT
The code works fine under 10.5.8 as well.
I guess the compatibility issue is due to the different implementations of Script menu and the different behaviours of AppleScript Runner (post-10.5) or System Events (pre-10.5) per OSes.
All the best,
H
P.S. The script below (saved as application bundle) works fine under 10.4.11.
--SCRIPT 2
    Save this as application bundle or application
    and invoke it from Script menu
delay 0.1
tell application "System Events"
    tell (process 1 whose frontmost is true) to set visible to false
end tell
delay 0.1
tell application "System Events"
    tell (process 1 whose frontmost is true) to keystroke "hello"
end tell
--END OF SCRIPT 2
/H