Re: Automation of Windows app?

2015-08-30 Thread ryguy7272
On Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 9:14:38 PM UTC-4, alex23 wrote: On 23/03/2015 1:43 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: As near as I can tell the standard go-to utility for this is a program called AutoIt. https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/ Nothing to do with Python, and its scripting language

Re: Automation of Windows app?

2015-08-30 Thread Grant Edwards
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

Re: Automation of Windows app?

2015-08-30 Thread Laura Creighton
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

Re: Automation of Windows app?

2015-03-31 Thread alex23
On 23/03/2015 1:43 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: As near as I can tell the standard go-to utility for this is a program called AutoIt. https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/ Nothing to do with Python, and its scripting language is maybe not that appealing to many, but it does the job, and does

Re: Automation of Windows app?

2015-03-23 Thread Jacob Kruger
- Original Message - From: Michael Torrie torr...@gmail.com To: python-list@python.org Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 5:43 AM Subject: Re: Automation of Windows app? Nothing to do with Python, and its scripting language is maybe not that appealing to many, but it does the job, and does

Re: Automation of Windows app?

2015-03-23 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam
-- On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 6:41 PM CET Emile van Sebille wrote: On 3/20/2015 10:55 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: I need to automate operation of a Windows application. I've been productively using python to create macro scheduler [1] scripts to automate windows programs

Re: Automation of Windows app?

2015-03-22 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 22/03/2015 23:54, vern.m...@gmail.com wrote: Check out Sikuli at www.sikuli.org. It is an amazing program, and it is scripted in Python (Jython actually)! Good luck. Only 2.7 again, when are we going to ban Luddites from this list? :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language

Re: Automation of Windows app?

2015-03-22 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 3/20/2015 10:55 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: I need to automate operation of a Windows application. I've been productively using python to create macro scheduler [1] scripts to automate windows programs for years. A sample script: Press Alt Send Character/Textcu Release Alt

Re: Automation of Windows app?

2015-03-22 Thread vern . muhr
Check out Sikuli at www.sikuli.org. It is an amazing program, and it is scripted in Python (Jython actually)! Good luck. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Automation of Windows app?

2015-03-22 Thread Michael Torrie
On 03/20/2015 12:10 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2015-03-20, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: I need to automate operation of a Windows application. I should have mentioned that I've found and am going to experiment a bit with pywinauto-0.4.0, but if there is anything else I

Re: Automation of Windows app?

2015-03-22 Thread Rustom Mody
On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 6:32:26 AM UTC+5:30, Mark Lawrence wrote: On 22/03/2015 23:54, vern.muhr wrote: Check out Sikuli at www.sikuli.org. It is an amazing program, and it is scripted in Python (Jython actually)! Good luck. Only 2.7 again, when are we going to ban Luddites

Automation of Windows app?

2015-03-20 Thread Grant Edwards
[I thought I'd seen a discussion of this recently, but I can't seem to find the right keyword.] 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

Re: Automation of Windows app?

2015-03-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-03-20, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: I need to automate operation of a Windows application. I should have mentioned that I've found and am going to experiment a bit with pywinauto-0.4.0, but if there is anything else I should look at, suggestions would be welcome. --

Re: Automation of Windows app?

2015-03-20 Thread Jerry Hill
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: I need to automate operation of a Windows application. I've used Sikuli (http://www.sikuli.org/) for similar things in the past. It's an automation framework built on Jython, and it worked great for what I needed at

Re: Automation of Windows app?

2015-03-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-03-20, Jerry Hill malaclyp...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote: I need to automate operation of a Windows application. I've used Sikuli (http://www.sikuli.org/) for similar things in the past. It's an automation framework