From: Ben Tilly <ben_tilly@...>
Date: 2001-01-31T09:25:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10148] Re: Capturing Screen, Moving mouse

makotosu@my-deja.com wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>Is there a way to use Ruby to control a user's desktop?  I want to be
>able to capture the user's desktop as an image (then convert it to a
>jpeg/gif/png) and also have Ruby automatically control the user's
>mouse pointer and click the mouse buttons as well (like producing a
>demo).

You might want to look at VNC:

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

There is a primitive scriptable interface, see

http://people.redhat.com/twaugh/rfbplaymacro/

and there may be something better available if you
ask around.  (I think there was a scriptable ActiveX
version but I cannot find it in a quick search.)

Also the protocol is documented and there are several
freely available implementations you can look at in
Java and C.

>This functionality was recently made available through Java's Robot
>class, but I wanted to use Ruby instead.
>
>I'm sorry if this question has already been asked-- please point me to
>the right place.

Good luck.

Cheers,
Ben
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