From: Mehdi Karamnejad Date: 2009-11-20T05:39:35+09:00 Subject: Re: Controlling other applications functionality Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: > Mehdi Karamnejad wrote: >> How can I access an applications objects and call their functions >> programmatically using ruby? for example suppose there is a button in >> an application which performs a task, I want to press that button with >> my ruby script, how is this done? >> -- >> Thanks in advance > > Depends largely on the nature of the receiving application. Can you > provide more detail about what you want to control? > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koser > http://www.marnen.org > marnen@marnen.org Well ,there is this application called Progdvb which is used to watch satellite channels , I want to programmatically call its record button at a certain time and recall again to stop recording PS: I have whole bunch of needs too, for example I want to control some functionality of my download manager(Flashget) , could you share more light on >>"Depends largely on the nature of the receiving application" what do I need to consider for this process? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.