Re: scripting apps

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

Gerald,

the at-spi layer will soon provide a way to trap and modify keyboard and 
mouse events, so a macro/recording and playback facility could 
theoretically be written using it.  More interesting, I think, is the 
possibility of providing a context-sensative macro builder which gives the 
user options based on the currently focused widget.

Yet another example of how accessibility ultimately benefits everyone... :)

Marc


At 12:10 AM 11/13/2001 -0600, Gerald Champagne wrote:
> > At ALS it was pointed out that it would be nice to have simple
> > user-level scripting - something like "choose the following menu item,
> > enter the following text" - which wouldn't require knowledge of IDL or
> > anything like that. We quickly realized that the accessibility
> > framework already provides the necessary hooks, and we'd just need to
> > add a little more glue and some Python bindings for appropriate APIs.
> >
> > An interesting project for someone...
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> This is great!  If this framework provides hooks to play back actions
> from a script, does it also provide hooks to record user actions into a
> script as well?  A macro record and playback user interface would be a
> great way to allow a non-programmer to create scripts.
>
> Imagine the uses for regressions testing...
>
> Gerald
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