Hi Tim,
I’m not the original poster, but I’ve done something
like this. I didn’t use
Win32OLE though, I used Win32 calls. (Easy thanks to
the ‘dl’ library.)
Great !
There’s a program called “Winspector”
(www.windows-spy.com) which allows you
to see what messages are sent to a window when you
do things. (Like click a
button.) You can simulate user-actions by sending
these same messages.
(Microsoft has a similar program called Spy++ which
they distribute with
Visual Studio.)
Yes, I have used Spy++ in the past …
I gave a talk about this once, slides are at
http://www.sdkacm.com/static/events/12-March-2004/slides.sxi
(OpenOffice.org format).
I’m not sure how useful the slides will be, many of
them just say things
like “[demonstrate code that does … ]”, and I
don’t have the demonstrations
online.
I will check it out.
I’ll ask work if I can release the code I wrote
under a nice license
(BSD/MIT-style). They’ve previously done this for
code that’s not directly
related to our project, so there’s a good chance we
can do this. (It may take a little while …)
No problem … I will wait 
Feel free to ask me if you have any questions about
this.
Just a simple example of grabbing the Active window
and sending a message (e.g. Maximize) in Ruby may be?
I have been able to do it for applications that are
started from within my Ruby app (using Win32Ole and
Shell.sendkeys interface), but not for those that are
already running.
Thanks,
– shanko
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