Re: [Boston.pm] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-22 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 06:21:38PM -0800, Ben Tilly wrote: A friend who supports a lot of small businesses is predicting that by the end of this year, Windows will essentially be unusable on the Internet. This seems extreme to me, but I don't keep track of these things, he does, and he has

Re: [Boston.pm] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-22 Thread Ben Tilly
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:02:51 +, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 06:21:38PM -0800, Ben Tilly wrote: [...] A fun issue is popups. Everything works fine and then someday there is an unexpected error and a popup stops everything in its tracks. Sure, you can

Re: [Boston.pm] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-21 Thread Mike Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen programs that can monitor your keystrokes and mouse clicks, etc, in order to replay them against the operating system. Does perl have the ability to do something like that? The purpose of my search is that I want to automate certain responsibilities which

Re: [Boston.pm] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-21 Thread Ben Tilly
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:04:31 -0600 (CST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've seen programs that can monitor your keystrokes and mouse clicks, etc, in order to replay them against the operating system. Does perl have the ability to do something like that? Yes. The purpose of my

Re: [Boston.pm] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-21 Thread Chris Devers
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The purpose of my search is that I want to automate certain responsibilities which necessitate using windows based programs, but not being a Windows programmer, I have no clue on how to do this. I don't know if it's possible, or if perl can do

Re: [Boston.pm] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-21 Thread Ranga Nathan
Services; BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California Tel: 714-442-7591 Fax: 714-442-2840 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/21/2005 06:04 AM To boston-pm@mail.pm.org cc Subject [Boston.pm] Controlling Windows with Perl? I've seen programs that can monitor your keystrokes and mouse

Re: [Boston.pm] Controlling Windows with Perl?

2005-03-21 Thread Ben Tilly
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:49:45 -0800, Ranga Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You would use Windows Scripting tool for that. Check-out WSH (Windows Scripting Host). There are many macros that do just that and as it was pointed out, this has caused many security exploitations in windows. And now