java.awt.Robot equivalent?

[Christopher Koppler]

I need to simulate mouseclicks (in Win2K) in another application's
window. Googling threw up java.awt.Robot, and a bit of trial and error
showed that it could do what I needed (simulate a mouseclick on an
open window). However, I don't want to use Java (or Jython) if I can
avoid it, as I already have a Python 2.3 app, which works quite
nicely, thank you, and which needs to click into a foreign window.

Is this capability available in any of the GUI toolkits (searching
Tkinter docs brought up nothing)? Is there a C library that I could
wrap? Or maybe I just need to use the Windows extensions. But if so,
how - I don't have the slightest idea how that would work.

Anyone have any pointers?


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Christopher

[Fredrik Lundh]

Re: java.awt.Robot equivalent?

Christopher Koppler wrote:
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> Is this capability available in any of the GUI toolkits (searching
> Tkinter docs brought up nothing)? Is there a C library that I could
> wrap? Or maybe I just need to use the Windows extensions. But if so,
> how - I don't have the slightest idea how that would work.
>
> Anyone have any pointers?[/color]

win32api's PostMessage might be useful. random google link:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2002-December/000635.html

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[Thomas Heller]

Re: java.awt.Robot equivalent?

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik@python ware.com> writes:
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> Christopher Koppler wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Is this capability available in any of the GUI toolkits (searching
>> Tkinter docs brought up nothing)? Is there a C library that I could
>> wrap? Or maybe I just need to use the Windows extensions. But if so,
>> how - I don't have the slightest idea how that would work.
>>
>> Anyone have any pointers?[/color]
>
> win32api's PostMessage might be useful. random google link:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyt...er/000635.html[/color]

Other random resources:

Simon Brunning has written a 3-part details blog entry on
'automating the win32 gui'.

And there's a library named 'autoit' which can be driven by com.

Thomas

[Christopher Koppler]

Re: java.awt.Robot equivalent?

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:36:55 +0100, Thomas Heller <theller@python .net>
wrote:
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>"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik@python ware.com> writes:
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>> Christopher Koppler wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> Is this capability available in any of the GUI toolkits (searching
>>> Tkinter docs brought up nothing)? Is there a C library that I could
>>> wrap? Or maybe I just need to use the Windows extensions. But if so,
>>> how - I don't have the slightest idea how that would work.
>>>
>>> Anyone have any pointers?[/color]
>>
>> win32api's PostMessage might be useful. random google link:
>>
>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyt...er/000635.html[/color]
>
>Other random resources:
>
>Simon Brunning has written a 3-part details blog entry on
>'automating the win32 gui'.
>
>And there's a library named 'autoit' which can be driven by com.
>[/color]

<accent type="fake Finnish rock'n'roll">
Thank you very many, Fredrik, Thomas!
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Autoit does exactly what I need (click on a specific coordinate in a
canvas-like window), and finally a reason to learn to use ctypes,
too...


--
Christopher