On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 24 Dec 2015 14:55, "boB Stepp" <robertvst...@gmail.com> wrote:
[...] >> 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 these programs, to my knowledge, have a >> 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, accurately >> clicking all things that need to be clicked, etc.? This is mostly a >> Windows-based scenario, but if the techniques (if they exist) can be >> abstracted to any OS I can find plenty of uses elsewhere as well! [...] > ...I googled "Python windows control mouse" and got: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1181464/controlling-mouse-with-python > Also this: > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyAutoGUI My last of several unsatisfactory searches was "how to programmatically click a button in python", which turned up a bunch of web scraping results. Sigh--very weak Google-fu indeed! ~(:>) Thanks, Oscar! PyAutoGUI looks very promising. It looks like my next problem will be figuring out how to find the pixel coordinates of the GUI elements which I wish to manipulate. This package mentions screenshot functions which may be able to locate these coordinates programattically, but from the example given >>> import pyautogui >>> button7location = pyautogui.locateOnScreen('button.png') # returns (left, >>> top, width, height) of matching region >>> button7location (1416, 562, 50, 41) >>> buttonx, buttony = pyautogui.center(button7location) >>> buttonx, buttony (1441, 582) >>> pyautogui.click(buttonx, buttony) # clicks the center of where the button >>> was found it is not clear to me (Yet!) how "button7location" is mapped to the actual button on-screen, so that I will know which button is being identified. But it looks like there is some good documentation which will hopefully make things clear soon! Merry Christmas! -- boB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
