Simulating OPT (or other modifiers) with `CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent` `CGEventSetFlags` `CGEventPost`

问题

I'm trying to simulate key-down and key-up for the OPT key on macOS.

    CGEventSourceRef source = CGEventSourceCreate( kCGEventSourceStateHIDSystemState );
    CGEventRef ev = CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent( source, keycode, is_down );
    // CGEventSetFlags( ev, NSEventModifierFlagOption );
    CGEventPost( kCGHIDEventTap, ev );
    CFRelease( ev );

... with is_down = true then false.

It works in most situations.

However, It does not match the native behaviour if I perform the following test:

I hover over a keyword (say CGEventRef) in XCode, and +OPT on my keyboard. The keyword backlights blue and the cursor becomes a ?. And if I move the mouse around the rectangle it stays highlighted.

Now I try exactly the same experiment with my synthetic OPT. Again the keyword backlights blue. But there is no cursor ?. And the moment I move my mouse the highlighting disappears.

So there is some very subtle distinction here.

What is the Operating System doing that I am not?

I considered that the mouse-move events might need to be informed that OPT modifier is down. So I created an EventTap to sort that. But still I cannot get the cursor to change.

I know that when a natural +OPT event occurs, a NSEventTypeFlagsChanged event fires. And in my simulated +OPT, no such event fires.

So I suppose it's possible that Xcode is tapping this event.

So how to fire an NSEventTypeFlagsChanged event?

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58673983/simulating-opt-or-other-modifiers-with-cgeventcreatekeyboardevent-cgeventse

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