[python-win32] Interacting with the desktop as a service onVista

[Steven James]

Because I like fun stuff and knowing that people at cisco use hacks like
this, here you go, this should work...

(cut to snippets because of length)
http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/6324

As mentioned before, the basic process is to create a disabled Scheduled
Task. When you are ready to run it, you enable it, run it, then disable it
again. You can supply the credentials. I tried to make everything a variable
in the above post. Does not run under Windows XP (there wasn't a Task
Scheduler COM interface in XP AFAIK).

Steven James



On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Matt Herbert (matherbe) <matherbe at cisco.com
> wrote:

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: python-win32-bounces+matherbe=cisco.com at python.org
> > [mailto:python-win32-bounces+matherbe <python-win32-bounces%2Bmatherbe>=
> cisco.com at python.org]
> > On Behalf Of Tim Roberts
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 1:48 PM
> > To: Python-Win32 List
> > Subject: Re: [python-win32] Interacting with the desktop as a
> > service onVista
> >
> > Matt Herbert (matherbe) wrote:
> > > My situation is I have a python service which runs 24/7.
> > Occasionally
> > > The service needs to access windows on the desktop. That
> > is, it needs
> > > to enumerate all the windows, find a specific pop-up, and
> > press a button.
> > >
> >
> > Wow, this sounds like an incredible hack impersonating as a feature.
> > For my own curiousity, is this for a test lab somewhere, or
> > is this actually part of a product?
> >
> > --
> > Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
> >
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>
>
> Tim,
>
> This is strictly for a test lab. To be more specific it's for automated
> testing of a product. The product has features that need to be tested
> both when a user is logged in and when there is nobody logged into the
> system. For the automation to be able to Test both of these situations,
> it needs to run as a service. Hence, my dilemma.
>
> -Matt
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