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Re: Gaining access to other programs through java

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From: Peter
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:10
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I was interested in this subject so that I could design something myself.  I
am new at java, so I want to try to create a program myself.  By the looks
of your post, I can't do this.
"Rich Wilkman" <richw@formlessvoid.com> wrote in message
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> Peter:
>
> Automated test tools that do this have been around for about 10 years --
you
> might search in that sector.  It is possible to drive Java UI with Java,
but I
> don't think you can use Java to easily (if at all) drive native code UI.
There
> are native tools that can drive Java UI but they tend to be co-ordinate
based
> which makes them pretty fragile in a testing environment.
>
> Do a search on UI Automation and you should get started.
>
> -Rich
>
> Peter Boivin wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
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