From: Pit Capitain <pit@...>
Date: 2007-03-03T20:23:25+09:00
Subject: Re: New to Ruby : Can anyone help

gga schrieb:
> On 2 mar, 21:36, Studentfj <studen...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 1)  double click on app.exe
>> 2)  move mouse to File >> open >> datafile.dat
>> 3)  move mouse to the START button ( which is active)
>> in the application windows and double click the button
>>
>> Basically I want to automate Step 1 ,2 and 3 above.
> 
> What you are asking really has little to do with ruby, but more about
> finding hooks in the windows API to do what you want (as it is a
> somewhat obscure thing to do, you'll probably find few people that
> know how to).

You could also look at AutoIt (http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3). I 
and other people on this mailing list have used it together with Ruby to 
automate Windows. You should be able to find some examples in the archives.

Regards,
Pit