Trying to attack the problem from a different direction:

What kind of interface does the microscope use to connect to the PC?

If it is serial (standard RS-232 or some bastardization of it), chances are that it uses simple ASCII commands to drive the microscope. You could capture and reverse-engineer those commands more easily than a proprietary binary file format.

Even if it is USB, those are sometimes realized with a serial-to-USB converter inside or outside the unit, and even if it is a proprietary USB-based protocol, you might have some chance of deciphering it.


Remote controlling a GUI that was not designed to be remote controlled seems like a really desperate last ditch effort to me (i.e. resort to this only if all else fails).

In reply to Re: Controlling a non-perl GUI by kikuchiyo
in thread Controlling a non-perl GUI by dbae

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