From: Jarmo Pertman <jarmo.p@...>
Date: 2010-09-26T00:30:15+09:00
Subject: Re: automation of controls and windows on Linux and OS X with Ruby?

Thanks! I'll take a look at xdo and xdotool itself. By taking a quick
glimpse it seems that it's not possible to interact with fields or
buttons on the windows themselves like you can do with AutoIt.

Jarmo

On Sep 25, 5:07 pm, Quintus <sutn...@gmx.net> wrote:
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> Am 25.09.2010 15:10, schrieb Jarmo Pertman:
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> > Hello!
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> > 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?
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > In OS X there seems to be AppleScript.
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> > Also, these tools should be easy to install and should be free.
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> > 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.
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> > So if you have done or are aware of something similar then please let
> > me know!
>
> > Jarmo
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> 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 fromhttp://github.com/Quintus/Automations/tree/xdo-devif you're interested.
> Download, decompress and type "rake gem" to make a gem from it.
>
> Vale,
> Marvin
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