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In article <3ac29fb0$1_1@dnews>, peterboivin@yahoo.com says...
> I am interested in simulating human actions on other applications.  For
> instance, there is a log file that can only be accessed through the GUI of a
> program written in C++.  I do not know C++ so I want to be able to write
> something in Java that will act like it opens the GUI, hit the tab for the
> log, then do an Edit-Select All-Copy (after this paste it to Notepad).  Is
> there any way of programming this in Java?  Thanks, in advance.
> 
> 
> 

try using the java.awt.Robot Class (jdk1.3) ... 

Example: this message was sent by the following code (just the send key 
pressed):

import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.awt.event.InputEvent;

public class RobT
{
  public static void main(String args[])
  {
    System.out.println("started");
    try
    {
      Robot robot = new Robot();
      robot.setAutoDelay(200);
      robot.mouseMove(470,60);
      robot.mousePress(InputEvent.BUTTON1_MASK);
      robot.mouseRelease(InputEvent.BUTTON1_MASK);
    }
    catch (AWTException awx)
    {
      awx.printStackTrace();
    }
    System.out.println("ended");
    System.exit(0);
  }
}