From: Quintus <sutniuq@...>
Date: 2010-08-05T16:28:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Send Text w/ Ruby

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Am 05.08.2010 08:05, schrieb James Britt:
> Eric Christopherson wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Matthew Barnes
>> <bbaarrnneess@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm curious if it is possible to send text to a window or web
>>> application.  I am using the firewatir library, but I don't think you
>>> can do it with that, so just wondering if it is possible with Ruby
>>> itself.  Thanks!
>>
>> On Windows, you can use Win32::GuiTest
>> <http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/win32-guitest/>.
> 
> AutoItX is also very handy for scripting Windows apps and the Win32 API.
> 
> See http://groups.google.com.kh/group/ruby-talk-google/msg/ca78a0fcf1015a05
> 
> for an earlier post I made on this.
> 
> 


If I'm allowed to promote myself...
I wrote a library wrapped around AutoItX3, available as the au3 gem[1].
For Linux systems I wrote xdo (based on the xdotool commandline tool),
but that's undergoing a heavy rework at the moment.

Vale,
Marvin

[1] See also http://auto.rubyforge.org
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