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- From: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
- Subject: Re: Can OS/2 2.0 handle this application?
- Sender: @watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.141341.32127@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 14:13:41 GMT
- News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.15 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
- Lines: 24
- Reply-To: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
- References: <2931058782.2.p00122@psilink.com>
- Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research
-
- In <2931058782.2.p00122@psilink.com> "Karl Finkemeyer" <p00122@psilink.com> writes:
- >I have a proprietary DOS full screen application (using DOS text windows
- >with mouse support and keyboard shortcuts) which I depend on. Since it's
- >proprietary, I have no source code and no way to change it. But I need
- >to automate it in any case. I want to write "something" which analyzes
- >the text on the screen and, depending on which text it finds and where,
- >feeds certain keystrokes to the application.
-
- Well one solution is to write a PM program that hooks into the system message
- queue that can place events into the queue specifically for the DOS application
- (which must be running in a window on the screen).
-
- Another solution may be to use the Workstation Interactive Test Tool (WITT) from
- IBM. This allows you to do exactly what the hook will do, but you write your
- "procedures" in REXX, or capture keystrokes. I haven't used it myself, and I
- heard there are some bugs to work around currently (while running in OS/2 2.0),
- but it seems capable of doing what you want.
-
- Another possible solution is a DOS TSR which will intercept the keyboard and
- screen calls made by your application and make the proper course of action.
- I think that this does exist someplace, but I have no names for you.
-
- Cliff
- Note: This posting represents that of the poster, not IBM Corporation
-