On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:13:40 -0500, mark mclarnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The Microsoft SDK contains an EXE called inspect32.exe which implements an >active accessibility API interface. Is anyone aware of work in the Python >community to interface with the ActiveAccessibility API? This program >inspect32 is wonderful in that it can programmatically invoke actions of the >GUI items it identifies on screen it is this functionality that I desire. I >know of some fantastic projects like cPAMIE but they only work for >particular software titles. > > Are you new to the mailing list? This very topic was discussed earlier this week. Here's part of my reply: >What you need are Windows hooks, which allows you to participate in the >window procedures for other processes. Implementing a hook requires >code in a DLL, because the DLL has to actually be "injected" into >another process, to run in that processes context. That would usually >make Python unsuitable, but there are people doing research in >accessability that have done it: > > http://www.cs.unc.edu/~parente/tech/tr01.shtml > >Note particularly the libraries for pyHook and pyAA. > Note that the "AA" in "pyAA" stands for "Active Accessibility". -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ Python-win32 mailing list Python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32