Automation of Windows app?

From	Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Automation of Windows app?
Date	2015-03-20 17:55 +0000
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID	<mehmu0$6jn$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)

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[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>

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Automation of Windows app? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-20 17:55 +0000
  Re: Automation of Windows app? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-20 18:10 +0000
    Re: Automation of Windows app? Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2015-03-20 15:27 -0400
      Re: Automation of Windows app? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-03-20 19:58 +0000
    Re: Automation of Windows app? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-03-22 21:43 -0600
      Re: Automation of Windows app? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2015-04-01 11:14 +1000
        Re: Automation of Windows app? ryguy7272 <ryanshuell@gmail.com> - 2015-08-30 07:25 -0700
          Re: Automation of Windows app? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-08-30 17:08 +0200
            Re: Automation of Windows app? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-08-30 16:18 +0000
    Re: Automation of Windows app? "Jacob Kruger" <jacob@blindza.co.za> - 2015-03-23 08:03 +0200
  Re: Automation of Windows app? Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2015-03-22 10:41 -0700
  Re: Automation of Windows app? vern.muhr@gmail.com - 2015-03-22 16:54 -0700
    Re: Automation of Windows app? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-03-23 01:01 +0000
      Re: Automation of Windows app? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-03-22 22:31 -0700

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