Recording of keystrokes and mouse movements (and playback).

[Terje Tessem]

I don't know if this newsgroup is the right place to ask, but I give it a
try.

I am going to make a test-application on top of other Windows-applications.
The test requires that I can registrate every keystroke and mouse
movement. Afterwards I am going to play back these keystrokes and mouse
movements. I'm also going to grab the "picture" of the program (how
everything looks). Does any of you know how to program this in an "easy"
way?

Have any of you made similar applications (or parts of it),
and is willing to share the nessesary code (preferably in C/C++) with
me? If anybody have experiences (good or bad) with this kind of problem,
I would like also them to share their in formation with me.

I hope those of you that can answear me, can do so also by mail.

Regards
-TT-

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[Charles Olivarez]

Terje Tessem wrote:
>
> I don't know if this newsgroup is the right place to ask, but I give it a
> try.
>
> I am going to make a test-application on top of other Windows-applications.
> The test requires that I can registrate every keystroke and mouse
> movement. Afterwards I am going to play back these keystrokes and mouse
> movements. I'm also going to grab the "picture" of the program (how
> everything looks). Does any of you know how to program this in an "easy"
> way?
>
> Have any of you made similar applications (or parts of it),
> and is willing to share the nessesary code (preferably in C/C++) with
> me? If anybody have experiences (good or bad) with this kind of problem,
> I would like also them to share their in formation with me.
>
> I hope those of you that can answear me, can do so also by mail.

> A good program that can do this (and is relatively inexpensive too) is
Microsoft Visual Test. The recorder is pretty good, and you can clean
up the scripts from there. It's been pretty easy to use so far for me.

Good Luck

Charles Olivarez
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[Richard S. Hendershot]

Terje Tessem (tes...@hsr.no) wrote:
: I don't know if this newsgroup is the right place to ask, but I give it a
: try.

also try comp.software.testing

: I am going to make a test-application on top of other Windows-applications.

: The test requires that I can registrate every keystroke and mouse
: movement. Afterwards I am going to play back these keystrokes and mouse
: movements. I'm also going to grab the "picture" of the program (how
: everything looks). Does any of you know how to program this in an "easy"
: way?

If you are familiar with Visual BASIC, you could, as am I right
now, use Microsoft TEST (4.0 ?). It has a recorder which will create a
_compilable_ script. The compiled executable can be executed under any
Windows OS - so, it's very transportable...

:
: Have any of you made similar applications (or parts of it),

: and is willing to share the nessesary code (preferably in C/C++) with
: me? If anybody have experiences (good or bad) with this kind of problem,
: I would like also them to share their in formation with me.

Brian Marick publishes a list of testing tools that, one of
which, might be codeable in C/C++... point your browser to;

http://www.stlabs.com/marick/faqs/tools.htm

: I hope those of you that can answear me, can do so also by mail.
did

: Regards
: -TT-

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: | Terje Tessem Work: Student |
: | Location: Stavanger College,Institute for Computer Science|
: | Phone: +47 906 90 109 (GSM - cellular phone) |
: | E-mail: tes...@hsr.no WWW : http://www.hsr.no/~tessem |
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