On Aug 30, 4:13 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek- central.gen.new_zealand> wrote: > In message > <61894f54-90ff-4e0e-9c81-860b6e9cd...@p12g2000prn.googlegroups.com>, > > > > kevinlcarlson wrote: > > On Aug 29, 8:46 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> > > wrote: > > >> In message > >> <45e0772c-24a8-4cbb-a4fc-74a1b6c25...@n19g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, > >> kevinlcarlson wrote: > > >>> I'm exploring the possibility of developing a helper app for an > >>> existing internal company website. Basically, it would automatically > >>> scan the current page contents, including prepopulated forms, and > >>> provide context-related business rule comments to the user, via a stay- > >>> on-top wxPython panel. > > >> Seems like a roundabout way of doing it. Can’t you integrate into the > >> server code which is generating the page contents, instead of trying to > >> reverse- engineer those contents? > > > Absolutely - that would be the best way to accomplish this. > > Unfortunately, our group has no access to the web server and the > > developers have this functionality scheduled about a year into the > > future, but we need it ASAP. Also, our group would like to be in > > control of the code and business rule contents, rather than wait for > > updates from the busy web team... > > Conway’s Law: any piece of software reflects the organizational structure > that produced it.
Hard to disagree with that sentiment - I've come across a fair amount of disorganized software in my day... ;) In any case, I'll try the WinGuiAuto approach and see how that works... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list