Simulating key press events in Mac OS X

Question

I\'m writing an app where I need to simulate key press events on a Mac, given a code that represents each key. It seems I need to use the CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent

Answer 1

Just in case some one needs a Swift version:

XCode 7.3 and Swift 2.2:

let event1 = CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent(nil, 0x09, true); // cmd-v down
CGEventSetFlags(event1, CGEventFlags.MaskCommand);
CGEventPost(CGEventTapLocation.CGHIDEventTap, event1);

let event2 = CGEventCreateKeyboardEvent(nil, 0x09, false); // cmd-v up
CGEventSetFlags(event2, CGEventFlags.MaskCommand);
CGEventPost(CGEventTapLocation.CGHIDEventTap, event2);

Code above simulates CMD-V pressed then released(AKA: paste).