Controlling the Mac OSX GUI via Python?
Lawrence D’Oliveiro
lawrencedo99 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 1 23:16:19 EDT 2016
On Friday, July 1, 2016 at 4:59:11 PM UTC+12, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:
> Yes, simulating mouse clicks with
> fixed coordinates etc. is prone to such failure, but there are better
> methods. These mouse clicks and keyboard events usually trigger a method
> call inside the GUI program. If there are any means to call that method
> directly, you are independent from the graphics itself.
Even if you could get it working reliably, scripting a GUI is going to be slow.
GUIs are only designed to work at human speeds, after all.
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