Re: [Tutor] OT: How to automate user interactions with GUI elements of closed-source programs?

2015-12-24 Thread boB Stepp
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Alan Gauld wrote: > To quote my recent book: [...] > This is a frustrating technique that is very error prone and also very > vulnerable to changes in the application being controlled—for example, > if an upgrade changes the screen

Re: [Tutor] OT: How to automate user interactions with GUI elements of closed-source programs?

2015-12-24 Thread boB Stepp
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Oscar Benjamin wrote: > > On 24 Dec 2015 14:55, "boB Stepp" wrote: [...] >> I find myself doing the same boring, repetitive tasks by hand, which >> amounts to copying certain information from one program and

Re: [Tutor] OT: How to automate user interactions with GUI elements of closed-source programs?

2015-12-24 Thread Alan Gauld
On 24/12/15 14:54, boB Stepp wrote: > publicly accessible API. Are there ways to programmatically > accurately click the right buttons (or check boxes, radio buttons, > etc.), copy desired fields and then switch to another program and > paste the desired information into the desired fields,

Re: [Tutor] OT: How to automate user interactions with GUI elements of closed-source programs?

2015-12-24 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 12/24/2015 08:54 AM, boB Stepp wrote: My Google-fu is weak on this question. I keep getting lots of hits on web scraping, but my interest is actually as follows: I find myself doing the same boring, repetitive tasks by hand, which amounts to copying certain information from one program and

Re: [Tutor] OT: How to automate user interactions with GUI elements of closed-source programs?

2015-12-24 Thread Oscar Benjamin
On 24 Dec 2015 14:55, "boB Stepp" wrote: > > My Google-fu is weak on this question. I keep getting lots of hits on > web scraping, but my interest is actually as follows: > > I find myself doing the same boring, repetitive tasks by hand, which > amounts to copying certain

[Tutor] OT: How to automate user interactions with GUI elements of closed-source programs?

2015-12-24 Thread boB Stepp
My Google-fu is weak on this question. I keep getting lots of hits on web scraping, but my interest is actually as follows: I find myself doing the same boring, repetitive tasks by hand, which amounts to copying certain information from one program and putting it into other programs. None of