Mouse and/or keyboard simulation
Radovan Garabik
garabik at kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk
Fri Dec 3 07:51:55 EST 2004
lamb2000 <lamb2000 at lycos.it> wrote:
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> No one in the world knows the answer to my question!
> " Is it possible to emulate in Python for Linux the mouse and/or the keyboard?"
> I am coming from XP, where I have plenty of methods (AutoIt, Macro Express,
> Macro Scheduler and even VBA macro registration in Excel).
>
> It is not necessary that I use Python (it should be better!). The goal of my request is
> obviously automatization of tasks in X environment, like shell programming in non-graphic
> environment.
> Examples of application could be:
> - Send queries to the server exacly simulating what I do by hand (urllib technique is difficult
> to apply with certain servers...)
> - Send to the printer or delete part of documents
> - ... and so on
>
> I know that all this tasks could be programmed, but for a newbie like me it is easier to
> follow what I already know.null
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what you want is an interface to xtest
look for xautomation package (not python, but calling xautomation from
python is trivial)
I used it successfully to get an information out of old win3.1 program
running under WINE
(10000 times (pagedown + screenshot + OCR))
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