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Despite its many syntax quirks, AutoHotkey is an amazingly powerful tool for automating Windows keyboard and mouse input - I use it daily at work. Having an equivalent tool on the Mac would be awesome, as I don't think anything in AutoHotkey's class exists right now...
Out of curiosity, have you looked at Sikuli [1]? [1]: http://www.sikuli.org/
Cool project! Seems like its capabilities are somewhat similar to Hammerspoon, an OS X project where you can script almost anything in the OS with Lua. I believe it was forked from Mjolnir. I use it for window management (which is it awesome at, especially considering I have a very complex arrangement with a 4K monitor + laptop screen), automatic mute when not home, remapping shortcuts, and more. The config syntax is…
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I've used Selenium a bunch the last couple months to automate daily/hourly jobs to pull data from 3rd party UIs that don't offer an API. I couldn't imagine not having a tool like Selenium at my disposal!
Pro tip: create a chrome extension with permissions on all http:// and https:// sites, or run it through Node-Webkit/nw.io, then you can use the generic DOMParser and querySelectorAll with a pretty fluent interface on any site you can imagine. example here: https://github.com/SchizoDuckie/DuckieTV/blob/angular/js/uti...
That's quite interesting! I thought node-webkit isn't suitable (yet) for such purpose. Could you go into more detail on how to do parsing/automation external sites with it?
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I'm sure it's possible, but one way to avoid it -- turn the constant into a method: > robot.keys.ENTER() (Not great for key combos, though...)
I'd then go with robot.keys.enter() (since enter is a function, not a constant) and make it chainable by returning `robot.keys`. robot.keys.ctrl().enter()
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Out of curiosity, have you looked at Sikuli [1]? [1]: http://www.sikuli.org/
I hadn't heard of it before, and it does look potentially very powerful. My only initial concern from reading the quick start ( http://www.sikulix.com/quickstart.html ) is the apparent requirements to use the "SikuliX IDE" for scripting...
I've used it a few times in the past and was able to use an external screenshot program (Apple-Shift-4 on Mac) and a text editor to write the scripts.
RobotJS + chrome drivers (and therefore CSS selectors for mouse/keyboard actions) would be the holy grail for integrations testing. webdriver.io kind of does that now, but it's a bit finicky... Any idea how I'd set that up?
- the process list - list of the window positions - text under a cursor - provides an interface to create specialized keyboard/mouse actions for specific apps (because why stop at chrome?)
i'm sure this is project is going to be quite popular :)
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Awesome! AutoIt is great. AutoHotkey wouldn't exist if it wasn't for AutoIt. AutoHotkey has also improved a bunch recently. Lexikos picked up development and he's done a killer job. But unfortunately it (and AutoIt) will never be cross platform. That's why I made RobotJS. I honestly never thought about a community but that's an amazing idea. A classic forum would be great, I've spent so much time on the AutoHotkey/Au…
Why won't it ever be cross-platform? Would the effort just be too gargantuan?
Despite its many syntax quirks, AutoHotkey is an amazingly powerful tool for automating Windows keyboard and mouse input - I use it daily at work. Having an equivalent tool on the Mac would be awesome, as I don't think anything in AutoHotkey's class exists right now...
Autohotkey is a crazy dense macroing tool; I originally thought it was just move the mouse and type, but it can do so, so much more- interface with spreadsheets, web browsers, heck, there's even a tiling window manager out there that's programmed in ahk script. (bug.n)
https://github.com/octalmage/mDesktop
With RobotJS and nw.js I've been able to port many of my apps to JavaScript, and ultimately make them cross platform.
Despite its many syntax quirks, AutoHotkey is an amazingly powerful tool for automating Windows keyboard and mouse input - I use it daily at work. Having an equivalent tool on the Mac would be awesome, as I don't think anything in AutoHotkey's class exists right now...
Out of curiosity, have you looked at Sikuli [1]? [1]: http://www.sikuli.org/
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I stand corrected. I looked closer. I never knew node modules could be written in C.
I was searching around for a js wrapper, but found that even the JS API was implemented in C [1]. I would only implement the low level "hardware" primitives in C, then implement the high level API in JS like Chromium's Blink-in-JS initiative [2]. Once they start expanding the high level functionality, they will lose potential contributors by sticking with pure C. [1] https://github.com/octalmage/robotjs/blob/master/s…