"Fast Primes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > I am looking for ways to control multiple Windows programs > from Python, such that I can enter data via Python and have > that data passed to an underlying third party program's GUI > screen, ... > Is it possible to come at this in a more straight forward way > than having to concern oneself with COM and the related > Windows internals?
COM *is* the straightforward way, that is what COM is for. If you can't use COM you have to go through the far less reliable route of "screen scraping" the GUI. This involves passing windows messages to the target application to simulate user events. Look at the PostMessage function in the Win32 API (Check it on MSDN) as an example. Getting data back out can be even more tricky unless you can get the "handle" of the widgets concerned. That can usually be done with a combination of FindWindow() and GetChildWindows() calls You can access the API functions via ctypes. But COM is actually easier in most cases Windows was not designed for scripting! Thats why DDE/OLE/COM was developed. HTH, -- 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
