GUI scripting on windows

Thierry Douez th.douez at gmail.com
Mon Mar 3 10:47:56 EST 2014


2014-03-03 16:39 GMT+01:00 Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>:

Hi Roger,

> Looks good.  I "expect" that I'll be learning more about this.

:)

> http://docs.activestate.com/activetcl/8.5/expect4win/

And Activestate is great!
I have a long positive experience working with them
with Perl and Komodo.

Thierry

> ~Roger
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Thierry Douez <th.douez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Todd,
>>
>> Another alternative for you, could be to use Expect.
>> Incidentily, this morning, I spoke a bit about it here:
>>
>> http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=19377#p97985
>>
>> Expect works on Unix, Linux, Mac and PCs,
>> and we even could imagine building a LC-external for it which means
>> the scripts could be written in Livecode then...
>>
>> Otherwise, AutoIT seems to be simpler to start with,
>> but I don't have any experience with it.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Thierry
>>
>>
>> 2014-03-02 17:14 GMT+01:00 Todd Geist <tg_lists at geistinteractive.com>:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I need to do a bit of GUI scripting for a small project.  I can do it
>> just
>> > fine on the mac using Applescript.  But I have no idea whats possible on
>> > the windows side.  And I need windows :-(
>> >
>> > Are there any LiveCode externals for doing screen automation?
>> >

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