What OS are you trying to do this on?

Based on your most recent thread asking for help (What should i install to use GUI in windows 8(x64) Strawberry or Activeperl), I'm assuming that you're on Windows. In that case, the module that you want is Win32::GuiTest. This module lets you automate GUI interfaces in Windows.

Just a few notes of caution about trying to automate GUIs in Windows:

• You can't have this run on the system if no user is logged into local console or through remote desktop connection. In the case where no user is logged into a local console or remote desktop connection, the Windows OS does not create the GUI environment. That means you can't automate GUIs.
• Using this through a remote desktop connection can be problematic. At times when the remote desktop connection program loses focus (i.e. you're using another applicaiton), the remote system suspends/stops the GUI environment (running applications/services continue to run). When that happens, you can't automate GUIs.

I'm not familiar enough with the Windows OS to give you a better technical explanations of the notes above. Those are descriptions of what I personally encountered when using Win32::GuiTest as well as another automation tool to automate GUIs.

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