From: Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso@...>
Date: 2002-03-12T23:57:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Controlling Mouse/Keyboard

"Norman Makoto Su" <normsu@slab.tnr.sharp.co.jp> writes:

> changed at all.  With Ruby, I was wondering if it is possible to (preferably in
> a cross platform way) to:
> 
> 1.) control the mouse (i.e. move the mouse, execute mouse clicks, etc.)
> 2.) make keyboard events occur (i.e. press keys on the keyboard)
> 3.) take screenshots of the desktop

Is this a Ruby issue? I think not. I don't know about Win32, but in X,
it is a simple matter of sending the X server the appropiate packet
you want. I remember playing prank on some classmates couple years
ago: moving their mouse, and typing gibberish on their terminal when
they execute some trojan program I put in their home dir.

Can Ruby do it? I think so... Last time I used the Xt lib. I don't
think there is any Xt binding to Ruby, but theoritically, you can
always construct the packet by hand.

But, this is definitely not a cross-platform solution.

YS.