[I thought I'd seen a discussion of this recently, but I can't seem to find the right keyword.]
I need to automate operation of a Windows application. It's a conformance test app from a standards organizaiton, and it's _stunningly_ bad. You have to sit it front of it like some sort of brainless slave and click a button every 10-20 minutes. At a minimum, I'd like to click the "run" button on a certain dialog when it pops up so I can at least run one test multiple times. It would also be nice to be able to menu selections and enter data in dialogs so that I can run multiple tests without human intervention. I'm normally a Linux and embedded developer, but I have ActiveState Python installed, and am hoping I can write some sort of Python program to drive this awful Windows app... <rant> There's no way to automate or script anything in this application, and even the simplest features seem to be broken. For example, there a spot where you can enter how many times a test is to run. But after each run, a dialog box pops up and you have to click "run" again. It's one of those programs that can only survive in such a state of brokenness because there's a "standards" organization that forces you to buy it and use it (I'm talking about _you_ ODVA). </rant> -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Boys, you have ALL at been selected to LEAVE th' gmail.com PLANET in 15 minutes!! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list