From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-08-20T02:00:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows GUI automation question

On Aug 19, 1:17 pm, Axel Etzold <AEtz...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I want to use Ruby to automate some Windows GUI application.
> I tried to use WET (Ruby gem: wet-winobj), because in this book:
>
> http://www.pragprog.com/titles/idgtr/scripted-gui-testing-with-ruby,
>
> it is promised that using this gem, Ruby objects for all the handles in the GUI application will be provided (see p. 170), so that I could easily send some text to a particular text field in an external application and read out the result as given in some other text field in that application.
>
> Unfortunately, I can't get this to work. My problem is essentially the same as this :
>
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/153374.
>
> Is it possible to change the gem specification and rebuild the gem ? How would I do that ?
>

You can do gem unpack in a directory, which is going to extract all
the gem files, then you can change it.

But I would rather suggest to contact the author and ask him to fix
it.

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Luis Lavena