geoff@tolerant.com (Geoffrey Leach) (05/27/90)
emendez@oracle.uucp (Eduardo Mendez) writes: I'm looking for a program that allows me to save input events (keystrokes, mouse clicks, etc.) and then play them back (I'm trying to create test suites for X applications). I heard that there is a program named xghost that accomplishes this. If somebody knows about xghost or any similar programs that do the same (xtrap is also being mentioned out there), please let me know. I will publish a summary of all the answers I get. If you have comments about testing X applications that you would like to share, please send them to me too and I will add it to the summary. jcb%frisbee@sun.com (Jim Becker) writes: I wrote and released XGhost to the net in February last year. It was an addition to the server logic that added capture/replay of mouse and keyboard events for Sun Firm_events. It was designed for the R3 release, but I'm sure would also fly with R4. And it was general enough to adapt to other hardware, if needed. Haven't done a thing with it since then, but there should be someone out on the net that has it and can provide patches for R4 or other systems. (I've since changed jobs and don't have it.) Yes, it worked fine -- although there was no releasable UI for it. (My user interface system was proprietary.) There was somewhat of a rejection of it from the X Consortium, as they were lined up to do a more complete testing environment. Haven't heard of any followup to this, however. In a private response to a request for a copy of the source, Jim indicated that he had posted the source to comp.windows.x (sigh, alas) and no longer had a copy. The posting apparently had "XGhost" in the subject line. Is there perhaps someone who has archived his contribution? Geoffrey Leach Veritas Software Inc. geoff@Tolerant.COM or ... apple!tolsoft!geoff Yes, we're changing our name.