Re: Gaining access to other programs through java

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From: Rich Wilkman
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:34

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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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