Do it!

Regards,
Tim 

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On 03/05/2011, at 5:04 AM, Hugh McGowan <colinsda...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all, 
> 
> The problem I saw was that Ruby 1.8.7 throws a SEGV with the existing 
> winclicker - 1.8.6 with the same bundle of gems worked fine. I did a quick 
> test using FFI and it seemed to correct the problem.
> 
> I was thinking of fixing this issue by implementing the existing 
> functionality of WinClicker in FFI. These both look like fine tools, but are 
> a little more ambitious than what I'm trying to solve :). 
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks!
> Hugh
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Jarmo <jarm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, i created RAutomation (https://github.com/jarmo/rautomation)
> which uses also FFI, why not give it a try? Let me know if anything is
> missing (FFI adapter is the most advanced one currently due to outside
> contributions).
> 
> Jarmo
> 
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Ethan <notet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'd encourage the use of the WinWindow library (being quite biased,
> > admittedly, having written it). It was written to replace winclicker, and do
> > things winclicker couldn't, and sounds very much in line with the work
> > you're describing.
> > http://winwindow.vapir.org/
> > Also jarmo has done some other work along related lines with the idea of
> > replacing AutoIt, I believe.
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 18:33, Bret Pettichord <b...@pettichord.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm writing about some work that Hugh McGowan has been working on this
> >> week. We are trying to move Convio's testing framework from Ruby 1.8.6 to
> >> Ruby 1.8.7 because 1.8.6 is getting harder and harder to support.
> >>
> >> He's had to do two things for this.
> >>
> >> 1. Repatch and recompile win32ole -- this is needed for the showModal
> >> dialog support.
> >> 2. Rewrite the winclicker code. His rewrite uses FFI and I've been
> >> encouraging him to go wild and create a new class to do this with a more
> >> intuitive interface.
> >>
> >> I'm hoping he will share more about this work that he is doing to get
> >> comments on it.
> >>
> >> Bret
> >>
> >> --
> >> Bret Pettichord
> >> Director, Watir Project, www.watir.com
> >>
> >> Blog, www.testingwithvision.com
> >> Twitter, www.twitter.com/bpettichord
> >>
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