From: Harry <rubyprogrammer@...>
Date: 2006-04-03T18:58:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Keyboard access

That was exactly what I was looking for.
I tried it out Monday morning and it worked.
Excellent!!

Thank you.

On 4/3/06, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
>
> Go grab AutoItX, and script it from Ruby.
>
>    require 'win32ole'
>    app_window_title  = "The App I Want To Type Into"
>    @au3 = WIN32OLE.new("AutoItX3.Control")
>    @au3.opt("WinTextMatchMode", 2)
>    @au3.Run( "C:\\Program Files\\SomeApp.exe" )
>    @au3.WinWaitActive( app_window_title  )
>    @au3.Send( "Some text to type to the application" )
>
>
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