discogui 0.0.2

GUI discovery

discogui discovers GUI elements

Links:

• home: https://github.com/ponty/discogui

• documentation: http://ponty.github.com/discogui

Features:

• python module

• works on Linux

• does not depend on Accessibility technologies

• toolkit independent

• only basic tests on very simple GUI

• GUI should be displayed on Xvfb or Xephyr

• slow

Known problems:

• Python 3 is not supported

Possible applications:

• GUI unit-testing

• automatic GUI control

Basic usage

from discogui.buttons import discover_buttons
from easyprocess import EasyProcess
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
with Display():
    with EasyProcess('zenity --question') as p:
        p.sleep(1)
        buttons = discover_buttons()
print buttons

Installation

General

• install Xvfb and Xephyr

• install Xlib

• install scrot

• install PIL

• install xdotool

• install pip

• install latest PyMouse and the program:

  # as root
  pip install https://github.com/pepijndevos/PyMouse/zipball/master
  pip install discogui

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo apt-get install xvfb
sudo apt-get install xserver-xephyr
sudo apt-get install python-xlib
sudo apt-get install scrot
sudo apt-get install python-imaging
sudo apt-get install xdotool

# PyPI version of PyMouse is too old, this is the latest
sudo pip install https://github.com/pepijndevos/PyMouse/zipball/master

sudo pip install discogui

Uninstall

# as root
pip uninstall discogui