On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 9:51 AM Christian Seberino <cseber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a third party GUI that manages some hardware. > > I want to control the hardware from a Python script. > > This seems to mean I need to somehow have Python code > that imitates a human doing the necessary > actions on the GUI (selecting menu options, pressing buttons, etc.) > > Is this possible / easy / doable? >
Possible? Yes. Easy? Probably not. So I would recommend first seeing if there's any sort of command-line tool, or command-line invocation for the GUI tool (some programs will open a GUI if given no arguments, but you can provide args to make them do stuff straight away). Once you've exhausted all options of easy automation, yes, you CAN have a program manipulate a GUI. It's fiddly, though. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
