On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:07:54 -0700 (PDT) dd jj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
Hello everyone,
I hope this is the correct mailing list to post these questions... Could you please give some comments on them? thanks.
1) Now I want to search a button with specific caption, such as "Save" or "Cancel".. "Ok" on X window (no matter GNOME or KDE) screen. Can I implement this under different desktop enviroments(KDE,GNOME) with Xlib programming? Or it's toally impossible?
no. you can't. there is no foolproof generic way of detecting a widget irrespective of widget set. you'd need to do hacks in each widget set to do this. not to mention programs that use other widget sets or don't use them at all.
XRunner does it, but the authors don't have a generic foolproof method, either: they have to implement different sensing algorithms for every X toolkit. Also, they cannot sense the toolkit a given application uses, either: although if the library were dynamically linked, you could infer which toolkit might be used.
Heh heh... grab a screenshot of a given rectangle and run an OCR library on it.
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