From: Quintus <sutniuq@...>
Date: 2010-09-25T23:07:28+09:00
Subject: Re: automation of controls and windows on Linux and OS X with Ruby?

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Am 25.09.2010 15:10, schrieb Jarmo Pertman:
> Hello!
> 
> What would be the best way to automate controls and windows on linux
> and os x? In Windows there is a Windows API, which allows to locate
> windows by their title/handle/class name whatever, to click on
> buttons, edit fields and send keystrokes. What would be the best tools
> to do these things on linux and on os x?
> 
> Maybe there's even some existing tools in Ruby that i'm not aware of
> to do that or to wrap any of the tools? I noticed that for linux there
> is a dogtail, but it is using Python.
> 
> Also, xautomator caught my eye, but i'm not sure how usable it will be
> for finding windows themselves and then clicking buttons and so on.
> 
> In OS X there seems to be AppleScript.
> 
> Also, these tools should be easy to install and should be free.
> 
> In short, it would be great if there would be already something
> written in Ruby to do that and if not, then i could use system calls
> to accomplish something similar.
> 
> So if you have done or are aware of something similar then please let
> me know!
> 
> Jarmo
> 
> 

I once wrote the gem "xdo" ( http://rubygems.org/gems/xdo ) which is a
wrapper around the xdotool command-line tool (
http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/ ). However, I haven't
updated xdo for a longer time now so it may not work correctly with a
recent xdotool version -- But I'm working on it. You can get a
development version from
http://github.com/Quintus/Automations/tree/xdo-dev if you're interested.
Download, decompress and type "rake gem" to make a gem from it.

Vale,
Marvin
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