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Article #2317Re: Gaining access to other programs through java
From: Peter
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 18:13
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 18:13
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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 news:3AC3804C.82353B5C@formlessvoid.com... > 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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