"Daniel Knierim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I'd like to simulate user input to TkInter applications from > another Python script, by inserting events in the Tcl event queue.
There are two scenarios where I'd expect that to be needed: 1) To roboticise an existing app, particularly if you don;t have source code access. 2) testing a GUI. Other than that it's usually easier to go in at the level below the GUI and call the underlying commands directly. Is that a possibility here? > Tcl/Tk has a couple functions for this (Tk_QueueWindowEvent > and Tcl_QueueEvent). These were new to me and indeed don't appear in either of my Tcl refrence books (Ousterhout and O'Reilly Nutshell) Are they recent additions? > Is there a Python interface for either of those? I can't find > any... Neither can I. > My second choice would be to use Tcl_CreateEventSource, > but I don't see a Python interface for that, either. Nope, me neither. No references in my books and no Python/Tkinter equivalents. In fact my Tcl prompt doesn't recognise any of the 3 commands you cite. Are these actuially Tcl/Tk interpreter commands or C interface functions? Only interpreter commands are reproduced in Tkinter. > I'd rather not work through the actual GUI interface if I can avoid > it. Why do you need to work through the GUI events? Normally the GUI is there to connect humans to the back end code. If an app needs access to the back end code it can usually call the functions directly using more conventional IPC mechanisms. Thee are a couple of higher level methods that might be of use? send(app, cmd, *args) event_generate(sequence, option=...) Dunno if they will help. -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
