On 2015-08-30, Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote: > In a message of Sun, 30 Aug 2015 07:25:55 -0700, ryguy7272 writes: > >>I know this is an old post, but anyway, can't you just use Windows Scheduler? >>http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/schedule-task#1TC=windows-7 > > I think you may have missed the original post, where poor old > Grant Edwards said: > >> I need to automate operation of a Windows application. It's a >> conformance test app from a standards organizaiton, and it's >> _stunningly_ bad. You have to sit it front of it like some sort of >> brainless slave and click a button every 10-20 minutes. > > So his problem isn't he needs to schedule some tasks, but rather he > has to exercise a horrible app by sitting mindlessly in front of > a Gui and remembering to click something at it every so often. Poor > Grant is going to expire of boredom before the job gets done. But > a python program can be plenty intelligent enough for this task. > > So Grant? How did it go? Would you recommend it for the rest of us?
[Regarding https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyAutoIt/0.3] Definitely. It worked just fine for what I needed to do. I started the application and configured a few settings "by hand" and started the conformance test application. Once it was running, I started my little Python program which waited for the "pass/fail" window to pop up and then clicked "continue" to continue the tests. Presto: unattended test runs. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
