Can anyone tell me if it can be done?
Hi Kevin,
Can anyone tell me if it can be done?
OLE object browser, in Ruby.
http://homepage1.nifty.com/markey/ruby/win32ole/index_e.html
Adelle.
Can you give examples of some tasks?
James
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kevin.gc@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone tell me if it can be done?
Yes.
This is not a very informative answer, I suppose. What kinds of things do you want to automate?
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Can anyone tell me if it can be done?
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Hello,
AutoIT Does the job well. It has an application that will tell you
window names and lot of nice tools. It uses a vb like lang to program.
Becker
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On 5/14/05, Alexey Verkhovsky <alex@verk.info> wrote:
kevin.gc@gmail.com wrote:
>Can anyone tell me if it can be done?
>
>
Yes.
This is not a very informative answer, I suppose. What kinds of things
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http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?AutoIt_For_Windows
martin
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ruby talk <rubytalk@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
AutoIT Does the job well. It has an application that will tell you
window names and lot of nice tools. It uses a vb like lang to program.
Becker
Martin DeMello schrieb:
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ruby talk <rubytalk@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
AutoIT Does the job well. It has an application that will tell you
window names and lot of nice tools. It uses a vb like lang to program.
I'm also using the AutoIT DLL driven by Ruby scripts. It really works great and already has saved me a lot of key-presses and mouse-clicks.
Regards,
Pit
Martin DeMello schrieb:
>
>>Hello,
>>AutoIT Does the job well. It has an application that will tell you
>>window names and lot of nice tools. It uses a vb like lang to program.
>
> http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?AutoIt_For_WindowsI'm also using the AutoIT DLL driven by Ruby scripts. It really works
great and already has saved me a lot of key-presses and mouse-clicks.
Anybody have any samples of ruby/au3 scripts that are a bit more in
depth than the wiki example?
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On 5/17/05, Pit Capitain <pit@capitain.de> wrote:
> ruby talk <rubytalk@gmail.com> wrote:
Regards,
Pit
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Bill Guindon wrote:
Anybody have any samples of ruby/au3 scripts that are a bit more in
depth than the wiki example?
No. But here's a script I just moved over to Ruby.
On a whim I started wrapping methods so that the core script would be a bit tidier.
# Launch Firefox and check gmail for that
# special v1agr4 offer
require 'win32ole'
def set_up
@au3 = WIN32OLE.new("AutoItX3.Control")
@au3.opt("WinTextMatchMode", 2)
end
def browse_to( url )
@au3.Run( "e:\\Firefox\\firefox.exe #{url}" )
end
def enter
@au3.Send( "{ENTER}" )
end
def tab
@au3.Send( "{TAB}" )
end
def wait( n )
@au3.Sleep( n.to_i )
end
def send s
@au3.Send( s.to_s )
end
def wait_for_title t
@au3.WinWaitActive( t.to_s )
end
set_up
name = 'my.name'
password = 'fake-password'
browse_to 'http://www.gmail.com'
wait_for_title "Welcome to Gmail"
# Make sure whole page has
# load over flakey WiFi
sleep 5
send name
tab
send password
enter
# The end.
James
I'm not using AutoIt, but in case it helps, here's a script I wrote today (inspired by this thread) that repeatedly opens different files with an application, and measures how much RAM the app is using.
I've simplified the code a bit from what I'm actually using. For example, I snipped out the bit which is testing a bunch of different builds of the app to check for variations between builds.
(Suggestions on cleaner ways to do things are welcome; I really don't understand OLE at all, or the WMI service. Although I did find this list[1] of properties which you can access on the processes returned by the InstancesOf call.)
class Fixnum
def sample_average
sum=0.0
self.times{ sum += yield }
sum/self
end
end
class WIN32OLE
def to_a
a =
self.each{ |p| a<<p }
a
end
end
require 'win32ole'
players = {
'25139' => 'C:/Documents and Settings/gavin.kistner/Desktop/25139/AMPlayer.exe'
}
file_base = 'D:/QA/TestProjects/v30/Performance/MasterSlideAssetWithManySlides/'
files = %w| 1x1_10Assets.am 100x1_10Assets.am 1x100_10Assets.am 100x100_10Assets.am |
filepaths = {}
files.each{ |filename|
filepaths[ filename ] = (file_base + filename)
}
stats = {}
samples_per_launch = 5
seconds_after_launch = 4
seconds_after_terminate = 1
players.each{ |player_name, exe|
filepaths.each{ |filename, path|
cmd = %Q|#{exe} "#{path}"|
# Different launches use slightly different amounts of RAM
# so launch it a few times and average the samples
stats[ [player_name, filename ] ] = samples_per_launch.sample_average{
# Run the command (open the file with the player) asynchronously
IO.popen( cmd )
# Wait to be sure it launched and initialized
sleep seconds_after_launch
# Find the process for the player
mgmt = WIN32OLE.connect('winmgmts:\\\\.')
player = mgmt.InstancesOf("win32_process").to_a.find{ |proc> proc.name =~ /AMPlayer.exe/ }
# Figure out how much RAM it's using
kbytes = player.workingSetSize.to_f / 1024
# Kill it
player.Terminate
# Make sure it's really dead (not needed?)
sleep seconds_after_terminate
puts "#{player_name}:#{filename} :: #{kbytes}"
# Return the measured RAM, for averaging
kbytes
}
}
}
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On May 17, 2005, at 3:28 PM, Bill Guindon wrote:
Anybody have any samples of ruby/au3 scripts that are a bit more in
depth than the wiki example?
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Bill Guindon schrieb:
Anybody have any samples of ruby/au3 scripts that are a bit more in
depth than the wiki example?
Hi Bill,
I doubt that it is of any use to you, but here's a script I use when developing stored procedures for an Oracle database. There are no comments, so feel free to ask if you need more information.
def main
start_automation
if toad_running?
activate_toad
switch_away_from_output if output_showing?
execute_code
if package_state_changed?
remove_error_window
switch_to_output
restart_output
switch_away_from_output
execute_code
end
switch_to_output unless error_window?
end
end
TOAD = "FREE TOAD"
OUT = "DBMS Output"
ERR = "TOAD Error"
def start_automation
require "win32ole"
@ai = WIN32OLE.new( "AutoItX3.Control" )
end
def toad_running?
@ai.WinExists( TOAD ) > 0
end
def activate_toad
@ai.WinActivate( TOAD )
@ai.WinWaitActive( TOAD )
end
def output_showing?
window_title =~ /#{OUT}/
end
def switch_away_from_output
switch_with( "^{TAB}" )
end
def switch_to_output
switch_with( "^+{TAB}" )
end
def restart_output
switch_with( "^{F4}" )
switch_with( "!DD" )
end
def execute_code
@ai.Send( "^{ENTER}" )
sleep 0.2 while @ai.MouseGetCursor == 0
end
def package_state_changed?
sleep 0.2
error_window? && window_text =~ /ORA-04068/
end
def error_window?
window_title =~ /#{ERR}/
end
def remove_error_window
switch_with( "{ESC}" )
end
def switch_with( cmd )
title = window_title
@ai.Send( cmd )
sleep 0.2 while title == window_title
end
def window_title
@ai.WinGetTitle( "" )
end
def window_text
@ai.WinGetText( "" )
end
main
Regards,
Pit
Thanks much for the example, gives me a good place to start.
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On 5/17/05, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
Bill Guindon wrote:
> Anybody have any samples of ruby/au3 scripts that are a bit more in
> depth than the wiki example?No. But here's a script I just moved over to Ruby.
On a whim I started wrapping methods so that the core script would be a
bit tidier.
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Ooh, and I just found this url[2] which links to some tasty scripts showing how to use WMI to automate all sorts of tasks on Windows. (The examples are in VBScript, but I think that it should be relatively easy to directly port them to Ruby, given the code I already supplied. And possibly this page[3])
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On May 17, 2005, at 10:53 PM, Gavin Kistner wrote:
(Suggestions on cleaner ways to do things are welcome; I really don't understand OLE at all, or the WMI service. Although I did find this list[1] of properties which you can access on the processes returned by the InstancesOf call.)
By the way, if I have a .dll (such as AutoIt) somewhere in my_project/ext, and I want it to work in "download, start, No Step Three (TM)" manner - no changes to Windows registry, no copying of files to c:\WINNT, no other installation to speak of.
In this case, what should this line be preceeded with:
@au3 = WIN32OLE.new("AutoItX3.Control")
?
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On 5/17/05, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
No. But here's a script I just moved over to Ruby.
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Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:
No. But here's a script I just moved over to Ruby.
By the way, if I have a .dll (such as AutoIt) somewhere in my_project/ext, and I want it to work in "download, start, No Step Three (TM)" manner - no changes to Windows registry, no copying of files to c:\WINNT, no other installation to speak of.In this case, what should this line be preceeded with:
@au3 = WIN32OLE.new("AutoItX3.Control")
Good question. The DLL is going to get loaded, I think, by the WIN32OLE wrapper, no? So it needs to know where t look, or the dll has to be someplace it knows to look.
Does the AutoIT.dll have to be registered (via regsvr32 or something) before win32ole can use it?
Time to go experiment ...
James
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On 5/17/05, James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
James Britt wrote:
Good question. The DLL is going to get loaded, I think, by the WIN32OLE wrapper, no? So it needs to know where t look, or the dll has to be someplace it knows to look.
That's my question, in a more pointed version: how do I tell win32ole to look at my_project/ext?
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Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:
James Britt wrote:
Good question. The DLL is going to get loaded, I think, by the WIN32OLE wrapper, no? So it needs to know where t look, or the dll has to be someplace it knows to look.
That's my question, in a more pointed version: how do I tell win32ole to look at my_project/ext?
I believe win32ole is going to want to find the COM automation info in the registry, and you'll need to run
regsvr32.exe AutoItX3.dll
as part of the installation process. But the DLL can go wherever you like; the location is stored when it gets registered.
James
James Britt wrote:
I believe win32ole is going to want to find the COM automation info in the registry, and you'll need to run
regsvr32.exe AutoItX3.dll
as part of the installation process. But the DLL can go wherever you like; the location is stored when it gets registered.
Sigh... as I feared.
How do I query/edit the registry from within Ruby?
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Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:
James Britt wrote:
I believe win32ole is going to want to find the COM automation info in the registry, and you'll need to run
regsvr32.exe AutoItX3.dll
as part of the installation process. But the DLL can go wherever you like; the location is stored when it gets registered.
Sigh... as I feared.
How do I query/edit the registry from within Ruby?
For what? If the goal is to register the DLL, just use, for example:
# unreg
puts `regsvr32 AutoItX3.dll /c /s /u`
# reg
puts `regsvr32 AutoItX3.dll /c /s `
http://www.ss64.com/nt/regsvr32.html
James