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UI Browser and gooey scripting ...
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UI Browser and gooey scripting ...


  • Subject: UI Browser and gooey scripting ...
  • From: Dave Stewart <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:08:36 -0700

On Mon Jul 28, 2003, at 5:09:17 PM, I stated:

> On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 05:02 PM, Bill Cheeseman offered this
> thought:
>
>> on 03-07-25 12:00 PM, Dave Stewart at email@hidden wrote:
>>
>>> Hey, this may be an answer to a long standing problem I've had that
>>> I've been unable to solve. I need (eventually) to script Terminal to
>>> interact with a software package it's telnetted into and maybe this
>>> GUI
>>> scripting is the answer I'm looking for.
>>
>> There's a 30-day free trial version of PreFab UI Browser available at
>> <http://www.prefab.com/uibrowser/>. Try it out, and see if it helps.
>
> Thanks Bill, this looks promising! I'm currently mired in a couple of
> other projects right now and won't have a chance to (seriously) look
> at this for a couple of weeks at least, but this might be the answer
> I've been looking for.
>
> You'll know when I'm moving forward on this again, I'll be the one
> bugging you with questions!

Guess what Bill! I finally got my other projects deployed and have a
little time (not much, but a little:) to play with this idea again.

I've downloaded the UI Browser from your site and must say it looks
*really* cool. One "question" which may end up being a show stopper for
me though ... I need to be able to send function keys at certain times
(<F2>, <F3> and <F4> mainly). With my limited toying today (I've only
had it for half an hour or so), it looks like that might be a problem?
It certainly doesn't like sending them as keystrokes.

Is this possible? I wouldn't mind having to edit the script by hand to
make this happen, so if you (or anyone else) knows a way to send
function keys (maybe their raw key codes?) to the Terminal.app
(actually *through* it, but I think the "MacTermFunctionKeys" setting
takes care of that for me), I'd greatly appreciate it.

I do understand it is possible for me to remap those function keys as
other key combo's (<control><option>3 or something like that), but that
really isn't an answer for me because those function keys (<F3> and
<F4>) are used throughout the system. If I were to remap them, the user
in question would have to use that combo when he needed <F3> or <F4>
functionality, and that simply won't go over well.

Hoping for a workable solution with my fingers crossed ...


Dave Stewart
Aqua-flo Supply (Goleta)
email@hidden

A diplomat is someone who can "tell you where to go"
and make you feel happy to be on your way.
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