Re: [Tutor] Developing Macro: Is it possible in Python?
Federo wrote: Above actions can be easily performed using Macro Scheduler. I am looking for possibility to do the same with Python? Hi Federo, I regularly combine Macro Scheduler with python by having my python code write mSched scripts. I find the combination of the two particularly adept at controlling legacy windows apps on current windows platforms. The main function accepts a command list and name, writes a .scp msched script file and invokes the mSched command with os.system. When I first considered how to approach this in about 2002, I looked at Mark Hammonds extensions and tried that, but it seemed to me at the time that the older apps simply didn't play nice and I fought harder to implement a pure python solution than the problem deserved. Now, it's easy to review the python created msched scripts and 'follow along' to catch the odd bug. mSched's capabilities have grown over that time as well and added some commands that make timing issues more predictable. Although, I admit I'm never actually in the mSched environment so I may well be doing things with python that are entirely doable in mSched. But, with python as glue I can control and coordinate as many disparate environments as the solution requires and it's mostly quick and easy. Emile ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Developing Macro: Is it possible in Python?
I have used pywinauto for such tasks in the past. http://pywinauto.openqa.org/ In my case, I used pywinauto to automate mouse clicks on a browser in order to auto-play a Flash game running in the browser. I had to use PIL to take screenshots and then process images to "read" the screen. -- Paul ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] Developing Macro: Is it possible in Python?
"Federo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Is it possible to do macro with Python? Macro means different things in different context. Macro should be able to click on given x,y screen location (one click, double click), drag scroll bar up / down etc.. It seems that you are referring to simulating user actions. The answer then is yes its possible but not trivial. You can use the low level Windows API to send messages to windows simulating mouse clicks etc. But it will usually require monitoring the messages first using a program like Windows Spy. The result is extremely fragile in that any change in the windows environment can render your code useless. Is there any other way beside macro to control windows based application? If it supports COM then you can use COM objects to manipulate things directly. The winall package has support for COM or you can use the API directly via ctypes. I confess I tend to use VBScript for this kind of thing, IMHO it plays with Windows much more simply than Python. Alan G. ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] Developing Macro: Is it possible in Python?
Hi Is it possible to do macro with Python? Macro should be able to click on given x,y screen location (one click, double click), drag scroll bar up / down etc.. Macro should be also able to extract data from predefined screen x,y location. I would use this to control desktop windows based program. The program is written from external provider - not Microsoft or me (it runs on xp environment).. Above actions can be easily performed using Macro Scheduler. I am looking for possibility to do the same with Python? Is there any other way beside macro to control windows based application? The best will be to be able to control application from background (the same time mouse and screen would be free for other work. No flashing on screen. In ideal program would be ran as beck - hiden process..) Cheers, Fedo http://www.email.si/ ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
