AutoIT and java Applet

[Steve Monson]

I have been playing around with AutoIT, and it looks pretty cool. I have successfully clicked buttons and so forth on Internet Explorer, but I seem to be having trouble with other kinds of applications.

In particular, I have a small demo java applet, named ShowFile.java. It is available at

http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/CWP-Sour...7/ShowFile.java

(also on a web page, but I forgot where it is). Anyway, when I do the command

appletviewer ShowFile.java

it comes up nicely, and AutoIT properly highlights the button and so on. Yet, when I try to click the button via a script, nothing happens. AutoIT recognizes the top-level window, because it makes it active, and will shut it down on demand when the script finishes. But I can't seem to get a handle on the button.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Steve

PS - Ialso have the same problem with a perl GUI app.

[flyingboz]

AutoIT automates Windows Applications. Any runtime environment is a 'black box' to Windows, and totally insulated from windows.

The range of things that au3 can do w/ these non-native applications is drastically limited, because there are no windows hooks to what is going on.

You may be able to do some things with the Pixel.. functions, with CLI I/O, Send(), and Mouse...() - but

the direct manipulation of controls inside any foreign runtime environment is beyond scope.