gee@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (Thomas Gee) (02/02/91)
Coming from a Unix background, my biggest complaint with the Mac is that which is considered its greatest boon. My problem with wonderful graphical programs like Cr*cket Graph, St*tView, etc., is that they assume that because I want to have wonderful, interactive control over the plotting process occassionally, that I want such control all the time. So, if I have 1000 graphs to produce, I do the same things, over and over and over and over and .... On Unix machines there is a wonderful little program called "expect". It allows me to provide input to interactive programs, examine their responses to said input, and apply more input based on how the program responds. So my question is: does there exist anything like this for the Mac? Is there some wonderful, magical software that allows me to fake any keyboard and mouse input, and read any resulting dialog box, alert box, flashing icon in the upper corner, etc.? I've used QuicKeys. A nice program, but it has no decision making capabilities; essentially no *input* functions whatsoever. I know that there are programs that have great macro capabilites, eg. Igor. But what I want is something to take control over essentially any normal Mac application. Can anyone help? Or should I go back to my Unix box? (mac iifx w/ A/UX, nice!) Thanks, Tom.
austin@spies.sf-bay.org (Glenn Austin) (02/04/91)
In article <3991@client2.DRETOR.UUCP> gee@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (Thomas Gee) writes: >On Unix machines there is a wonderful little program called "expect". It >allows me to provide input to interactive programs, examine their responses >to said input, and apply more input based on how the program responds. > >So my question is: does there exist anything like this for the Mac? Is there >some wonderful, magical software that allows me to fake any keyboard and >mouse input, and read any resulting dialog box, alert box, flashing icon in >the upper corner, etc.? Yes, it's called Tempo II Plus. Works great for almost everything, AND has the ability to loop, branch, repeat, etc. It can do almost everything you would normally do in front of the screen, only faster and automatically. I have both QuicKeys and Tempo II+, and gave up on QuicKeys since it didn't support "intelligent" macros. I haven't played with QK 2.0 yet, however... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Glenn L. Austin | "Turn too soon, run out of room, | | Auto Racing Enthusiast and | Turn too late, much better fate" | | Macintosh Wizard | - Jim Russell Racing School Instructors |