I'm interested in using pharo to automate the windows operating system through the windows API. I found a package called os-windows, which has a lot of this functionality but also a lot is missing, I want to help add more - how is this done?
Specifically I want to be able to: Move the Windows cursor on the desktop relative to the screen size Move the Windows cursor relative to the active window on any active window, not just the console Monitor all hardware keyboard activity (respond to hotkeys in any application) Send keystrokes to any target window or window control (such as an edit control) Get control information from external windows, such as the contents of an edit control, or the label of an edit control, or the hwnd of the edit control, etc. Ability to do DllCalls (which opens a lot of functionality in Windows, such as sending windows messages that can activate menu items in third party desktop applications). All of this functionality and more comes from the windows scripting language AutoHotkey (https://autohotkey.com/) I'm looking to make much of the AutoHotkey functionality available in Pharo, so that I can use Pharo instead of Autohotkey. AutoHotkey is implemented under-the-hood with the C language and is open source, so I can see how they made their functions work, I would like to port this to Pharo. Can anyone could shed some light on this process, is it even practical to do this? -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/Windows-automation-os-windows-tp4936229.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
