At first you must forgive my double posting (4 & 5 in terms of date and 4 & 7 in terms of answers). I must then thank the new comers: Michael, Alex Martelli and Mike Meyer.
Michel wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> But then I changed idea... Also if it is already one year that I try >> to find a solution in Linux (mainly with Python or DCOP and KDE), > This doesn't express the question you have anywhere clearly enough. My English is so poor that I don't understand... > Linux can run perfectly happily without any form of windowing > environment. I know, but nowadays almost any relevant application has a GUI. > Do you want to replay against qt applications? KDE? wx? GTK? > Or send raw X11 events? The answers to these questions aren't > linux specific either... I have nothing against GUI and in fact I chose Qt also if I made only limited tests using Qt Designer. However I should prefer not to program at low level (sending raw X11 events...). Being a newbye I was confident that someone had already developed a macro language for Linux... I hoped to have found it in Python, but I was wrong. Alex Martelli wrote: > Actually, if the app is running under X11 you may try to fake out a > keystroke event (with low level calls, but ctypes might let you use > it from Python). Of course, the app WILL be told that the keystroke > is fake, through a special flag if it cares to check for it, > for security reasons; but if the app doesn't specifically defend > itself in this way. > See, for example, http://xmacro.sourceforge.net/ -- I guess that > xmacroplay could pretty easily be adapted, or maybe even used as is > with an os.popen. My answer is the same as that given to Michael about low level programming. But I must thank anyway Alex for giving informations to such a level (I didn't know that under Linux there was such a level of sophistication with the possibility for an application to discover fake keystrokes...). If this fake keystroke is used to fire an event (like pressing a button), the fake flag is propagated to the action taken by the button? For the other Alex observations (about Mac OsX and my examples of automation centered on web automation) I have a PC, and the fact that Python is very good at dealing with the web, doesn't help too much in this case... In any case a macro language like AutoIt is a general purpose application. At last I must thank Mike Meyer for his suggestion to use python-xlib to avoid low level programming... Bye. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
