How to use AutoIt in Ruby
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From: H- 16 on 14 Apr 2010 16:12 I know for a fact that one can use AutoIt in Rubybut I don't know ho to do it or how to even use it inside Ruby. Has anyone actually done this? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
From: Marvin Gülker on 14 Apr 2010 16:37 H- 16 wrote: > I know for a fact that one can use AutoIt in Rubybut I don't know ho to > do it or how to even use it inside Ruby. > > Has anyone actually done this? I once wrote a library for exactly that purpose, but until today I didn't get much feedback. So, if you want to give it a try: http://rubygems.org/gems/au3 Otherwise, stick to win32ole: require "win32ole" au3 = WIN32OLE.new("AutoItX3.Control") Marvin -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
From: James Britt on 14 Apr 2010 17:07 Marvin G�lker wrote: > > Otherwise, stick to win32ole: > require "win32ole" > au3 = WIN32OLE.new("AutoItX3.Control") That's how I've used it. It's pretty straightforward. I typically ended up writing a few helper methods for some of the repetitive things that required sending multiple commands to autoitx, or just to make the main code cleaner. #---- example: sign in to library Web site --- require 'win32ole' def set_up @au3 = WIN32OLE.new "AutoItX3.Control" @au3.opt "WinTextMatchMode", 2 end # Yeah, it's kinda old ... def browse_to url @au3.Run "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox2\\firefox.exe #{url}" end def enter @au3.Send "{ENTER}" end def tab send "{TAB}" end def wait n @au3.Sleep n.to_i end def send s warn s @au3.Send s.to_s end def wait_for_title t @au3.WinWaitActive t.to_s end #--------------- cardnumber = '9670150903536' pin = '90873' set_up browse_to 'http://libcat.scottsdaleaz.gov/patroninfo' wait_for_title "Millennium Web Catalog" # Make sure whole page has loaded over flakey WiFi sleep 4 send cardnumber tab send pin enter #--------------- It's also handy to learn about the Windows message queue and sending commands there. It makes it easier/more reliable to trigger actions using, say, accelerator commands or keyboard shortcuts (e.g. ctrl+v) instead of mouse clicks or menu navigation. I had some code that hooked into Watir and took screenshots of each page, pasted them into Paintbrush, then saved them to disk, but at the moment I have no idea where that code is. But sending raw key messages made it pretty easy to do. http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/appendix/WinMsgCodes.htm -- James Britt www.jamesbritt.com - Playing with Better Toys www.ruby-doc.org - Ruby Help & Documentation www.rubystuff.com - The Ruby Store for Ruby Stuff www.neurogami.com - Smart application development
From: H- 16 on 15 Apr 2010 15:03 Marvin Gülker wrote: > H- 16 wrote: >> I know for a fact that one can use AutoIt in Rubybut I don't know ho to >> do it or how to even use it inside Ruby. >> >> Has anyone actually done this? > > I once wrote a library for exactly that purpose, but until today I > didn't get much feedback. So, if you want to give it a try: > http://rubygems.org/gems/au3 > > Otherwise, stick to win32ole: > require "win32ole" > au3 = WIN32OLE.new("AutoItX3.Control") > > Marvin Thanks, I didn't know you needed the '.Control'. I tried installing your gem but I need v. 1.9 I'm on a windows platform so now the question is how do I upgrade? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
From: Marvin Gülker on 15 Apr 2010 15:59
H- 16 wrote: > I'm on a windows platform so now the question is how do I upgrade? http://www.rubyinstaller.org/ Marvin -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. |