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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Automation of Windows app?
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 19:58:09 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2015-03-20, Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> I need to automate operation of a Windows application.
>
> I've used Sikuli (http://www.sikuli.org/) for similar things in the
> past.  It's an automation framework built on Jython, and it worked
> great for what I needed at the time.

Thanks, I'll keep Sikuli in mind.  So far, I've been able to get
pywinauto to do what I need to do [as long as I run programs from the
Windows cmd.exe prompt.  You apparently can't run Windows Python
programs from a Cygwin terminal or ssh session].

> I think AutoHotKey is also widely used for automating windows GUI
> apps, but it's not related to python at all.

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