Ron Coutts
11/11/2003 6:24:00 PM
After some more digging at Microsoft's web site, it seems I've answered
my own question. The following snippet will start Notepad and send it
some keys.
Ron
require 'win32ole'
wsh = WIN32OLE.new('WScript.Shell')
wsh.Run("Notepad.exe")
while not wsh.AppActivate("Notepad")
sleep .1
end
wsh.SendKeys("This is a test.")
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Coutts [mailto:rcoutts@envistatech.com]
> Sent: November 11, 2003 10:15 AM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Sending keystrokes to GUI applications
>
>
> I'm trying to automate a Windows GUI application that has no command
> line interface and no OLE Automation interface. I only need to send a
> few keystrokes to this application. I thought Ruby would be great for
> this job but I've searched extensively and can't find any
> information on
> how to do it. Below is an example in Java of what I'd like to do
> (Notepad is not the application I'm trying to automate).
>
> Can anyone provide any suggestions or code snippets showing
> how to send
> keystrokes to a Windows GUI application. Any help would be much
> appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Ron
>
>
> import java.awt.AWTException;
> import java.awt.Robot;
> import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
> import java.io.IOException;
>
> public class Automate {
> public static void main(String[] args) {
> try {
> Runtime.getRuntime().exec( "notepad.exe");
> Robot robot = new Robot();
> robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_A);
> } catch (IOException e) {
> // TODO Auto-generated catch block
> e.printStackTrace();
> } catch (AWTException e) {
> // TODO Auto-generated catch block
> e.printStackTrace();
> }
> }
> }
>
>