From: The NaztyBoys <thenaztyboys@...>
Date: 2010-08-06T01:15:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Send Text w/ Ruby

On Aug 5, 1:28 am, Quintus <sutn...@gmx.net> wrote:
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> Am 05.08.2010 08:05, schrieb James Britt:
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> > Eric Christopherson wrote:
> >> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Matthew Barnes
> >> <bbaarrnne...@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!
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> >> On Windows, you can use Win32::GuiTest
> >> <http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/win32-guitest/>.
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> > AutoItX is also very handy for scripting Windows apps and the Win32 API.
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> > Seehttp://groups.google.com.kh/group/ruby-talk-google/msg/ca78a0fcf1015a05
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> > for an earlier post I made on this.
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> 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.
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> Vale,
> Marvin
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> [1] See alsohttp://auto.rubyforge.org
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Thanks Marvin!  I'll have to check out your xdo tool as I am on a
linux box.