Re: Meeting Perl

While I've not seen ICON in quite a while, WinBatch lives on, at least at our facility. Some of the older Windows programs around here don't lend themselves to automation via command-line interfaces, OLE, etc. For these, it seems to make more sense to use an existing, tested "key/mouse stuffer" than to create one in Perl.

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Re (tilly) 2: Meeting Perl by tilly (Archbishop) on Jul 09, 2001 at 22:36 UTC
While I understand not wanting to invent working wheels, if you want to create a key/mouse stuffer then I recommend looking into Win32::GuiTest or Win32::CtrlGUI. I have not used them, so no specific recommendations, but I have personally found that it can be a lot easier to rewrite existing batch scripts in Perl and then add error handling logic than it is to make the original robust. YMMV. (That experience was mostly with expect scripts.)	[reply]

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by tilly (Archbishop) on Jul 09, 2001 at 22:36 UTC

Win32::GuiTest

Win32::CtrlGUI

I have not used them, so no specific recommendations, but I have personally found that it can be a lot easier to rewrite existing batch scripts in Perl and then add error handling logic than it is to make the original robust. YMMV. (That experience was mostly with expect scripts.)

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