From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2002-12-23T02:59:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Question regarding talking to a process


<pbolaki@uwm.edu> wrote in message
news:1040577065.3e05f2295dd2e@mail02.imt.uwm.edu...
>      The question I have is that is there any way to talk to the
application in
> Ruby, something like how "SENDKEYS" works in VB.

I guess this depends on what GUI toolkit you are using.
You can probably send windows messages (under MS Windows) and handle those
messages in the GUI toolkit framework.
This has nothing to do with Ruby itself.
I can't tell you how that would work in FxRuby etc. but I guess this would
be the general approach.

More generally, you could open a socket connection in a separate thread and
communicate with the application that way.
You can easily find examples of small embedded http servers, which are good
for application debugging. See for example miniWiki which PhlIp posted an
update to today in this newsgroup.

Mikkel