From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-11-09T03:45:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24681] Re: Testing as a Ruby niche

In article <2B92A3D0D399D311BA7E00A0C90F8FDD01AE38D6@mailgate.snelling.com>,
Morris, Chris <chris.morris@snelling.com> wrote:
>One thing I think would be handy to have in Ruby is a way to generate
>keystrokes/mouse actions against other Windows. I'm dreading this a bit,
>actually. If I ever have to test a msgbox that IE throws, I'm not certain
>how I'll do that -- I've already had to workaround that once. One plus for
>VBScript, it has a SendKeys call that quite simply achieves this.
>
>Plus, with keystroke ability, that'd be a foot in the door for testing other
>browsers. Not as elegant as the nice COM interface I've got with IE, but
>might be pretty workable.
>

Perl has a module in the Win32 hierarchy called TestGui 
(Win32::TestGui) that can do just what you're describing.  I hope to begin 
converting this to a workable Ruby version in the next couple of weeks.

Man.... I'd better start a TODO list ;-)

Phil 
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