I want to automate an undocumented, binary win32 GUI app. I've got the app
running on Linux using wine. I would really like to use python to automate
the GUI on the "X11-side" of wine, but python doesn't seem to have
native X11
support (http://python.org/doc/faq/gui.html). Am I correct in assuming that
wine doesn't translate from win32 --> some GUI toolkit --> X11? Here
are the
options that I am working on validating...
X11 GUI Automation
xnee - http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/xnee/
android - http://www.wildopensource.com/larry-projects/android.html
python - ???
doesn't have concepts of buttons, etc. (only pixels, mouse movements)
GUI Toolkit Automation
Not possible b/c wine translates directly from win32 to x11
Python for Windows Extensions via wine
Not sure if this will work. I get the following errors. Plus I'd
rather stay on the X11 side if possible.
bash-2.05b$ wine ../Python23/python ./winGuiAuto.py
win_version= NT
Open and locate Notepad
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./winGuiAuto.py", line 632, in ?
notepadWindow = findTopWindow(wantedClass='Notepad')
File "./winGuiAuto.py", line 46, in findTopWindow
raise WinGuiAutoError("No top level window found for wantedText="
+
__main__.WinGuiAutoError: No top level window found for wantedText=None,
wantedClass='Notepad', selectionFunction=None
bash-2.05b$
Thanks!
Brian