wine users - Mar 2008 - Get a handle of a wine application and control it...

Hi,

I want to know if it's possible to get a handle of a wine application
running via  a linux program (C++ or java) and control it (ie: scrape the
windows screen, put some mouse events to the application etc...).

By example: 

1) start a windows program via wine
2) start my linux app
3) my linux find the windows program handle
4) my linux app read the screen content
5) my linux app execute actions on the windows app via the mouse or keyboard
based on the screen content.

That should be doable but I don't know where to start, is there some wine
api or documentation or something ?

Thanks in advance

Blizz

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Blizz <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
>  I want to know if it's possible to get a handle of a wine application
>  running via  a linux program (C++ or java) and control it (ie: scrape
>  the windows screen, put some mouse events to the application etc...).
There are probably many ways.  One way might be to write
an autohotkey script and run that from the linux program.
- Dan

Wine does not really have it's own API - it's either win32api or POSIX.
If you need a "window handle" - you have to run your program under
Wine, as those handles exist inside Wine only.

You can do lots of things outside Wine as well. Just remember that Wine plays
some tricks with X. Oh and Wine have only one big top level window for each ..
window. Controls (buttons, text, etc) do not have their own X windows.

Thanks for the replies,

Well I guess if only I could get the window position on the desktop it would be
a start. I think the os could provide such info. right ?

Thanks

Blizz

Have you tried http://ldtp.freedesktop.org/wiki/ ?