From: Logan Barnett <logustus@...>
Date: 2008-08-02T15:36:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Automated filling-in of external Windows application fields ...?


On Aug 1, 2008, at 1:45 PM, James Britt wrote:

> Axel Etzold wrote:
>> Dear all,
>> I have around 50 files which I need to open in an external  
>> (Windows) program, one after the other.
>> As each of them is about 100 MB larger, I'd like to automate the  
>> process.
>> The external application contains some data which are needed for  
>> the processing which I cannot
>> reproduce in another easy way.
>
>
> Look at AutoItX, and google around for using the COM interface with  
> Win32OLE for scripting via Ruby.
>
>
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You might also consider using JRuby with Java's Robot class. I used it  
to automate GUI integration/story testing against Monkeybars, but it  
wasn't well suited for a test environment per se. However, it'll do  
just about everything that AutoIt can do. So it really comes down to  
which has a better API for your needs. I haven't used AutoIt with Ruby  
before, but Robot is a really easy class to use.

JRuby:
http://jruby.codehaus.org/
Robot class (built into Java):
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/Robot.html