Interfacing GUI applications..?

[Emile van Sebille]

For non-standard (older) windows applications that do not appropriately
respond to key-stroke instructions, take a look at mSched from
http://www.mjtnet.com/ .  I've just completed "automating" a windows app
with this, and found it more than up to the task.

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Jeff Shannon" <jeff at ccvcorp.com> wrote in message
> news:16074dce.0106200912.7b9bc793 at posting.google.com...
>     ...
> > One suggestion for "something else"... there is a Visual Basic function
> > "sendkeys()" that does exactly what is requested--it simulates keyboard
>
> Easily usable from Python too (as it's packaged as part of the Windows
> Scripting Host, a free download from Microsoft if you don't have it
> already installed).  See an example, e.g., at:
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook/Recipe/65107
>
> Pity it won't help the original poster (who's on Linux) -- unfortunately,
> generic scriptability under Unix-y systems tends to be horrible for all
> non-text-mode applications (except, I'm told, those built with certain
> clever toolkits -- no direct experience, sorry).  Ah, *COM*...!
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> Alex
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