interacting with gui-based programs

[larrydalooza]

bronzesink77 at hotmail.com (Jeff) wrote in message news:<ee9f3724.0302182045.26261c3e at posting.google.com>...
> > On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Jeff wrote:
> > 
> > > I'd like to use Python to automate my interactions with graphical user
> > > interfaces, such as those of Mozilla and Kazaa (running with Wine). Is
> > > this possible? Are there libraries that can help with this kind of
> > > thing?
> > 
> > Google for AutoIt. It's not Python, but it does have an Active/X
> > interface, which I'm using via Mark Hammond's win32com package. Not sure
> > how well any of that stuff works under Wine though.
> > 
> > Actually, if you go to Google groups you can search for AutoIt on c.l.py -
> > somebody mentioned it several months back and IIRC posted a snippet of
> > code on how to use it.
> > 
> > -Dave
> 
> 
> Thanks for the reply. I must say, I'm surprised that the only way to
> interact with the GUI of Mozilla and Kazaa running on Linux is using a
> closed-source program (AutoIt). Do langauges other than Python have
> modules that could be compiled and used with Python to interact with
> these GUIs? What language could AutoIt be written in that is more
> capable than Python?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Jeff

AutoIt is written in C++ and is just sort of a wrapper for Windows API
functions. EnumWindows... EnumChildWindows... keyb_event...
SetWindowPos... and so forth. There is a DLL version also... What are
the Python capabilities of accessing Windows API? or DLLS?

Larry