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Archive for April, 2009

Palm Pre and Web OS

I am still not sure why PALM is not releasing their web os to third party developers. They also must know by now that if they have to stand a chance in front of apple, they need to have those APPS. I had applied for the OS on their website about two weeks back, and have not received a acknowledgment as yet.

iPhone has thousands of apps just about to do anything in this world. I cant think of an app which is not there. The one good thing about Palm pre web OS, is it will have a short learning curve, since its OS is mainly web based like java script and so on.

In my view they must release the web development kit at the earliest to undo any further damage.

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AutoIt: tool to test windows GUI

for more information please visit: http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/index.shtml
This can be used for automating windows GUI and I dont think so this can be used for automating web based applications unless you tell if i have done something wrong here.

Ok..its pretty simple how to use. You can install the AutoIt exe. It comes with a pretty good IDE for scripting. I just wanted to share a simple example on how to automate a simple installation procedure.

You need to copy and paste this to a notepad and save it as .au3 extension. You can also save it as a exe , I mean you can convert it into an exe using this tool. This was you can distribute it also. I would explain it as below:

// get the exe input name from the user.
$exeName = InputBox(EXE Input, enter full SpySweeperRegSetup_EN.exe name in format name.exe, , )

Run($exeName)
// wait for the window to come up
WinWaitActive(Webroot Software – Installation,Welcome)
// send is used to send the commands, over here I am sending the commands to the
// application
Send({ENTER})
// my application needs a keycode for installation, get the keycode
$keycode = InputBox(Keycode, Enter your keycode SSGA-ONLN-AADI-BOXN-BOAN, , )

Send($keycode)

Send({ENTER})

Send(!o)

Send({ENTER})

Send({ENTER})

Send(!a)

Send(!N)

WinWaitActive(Webroot Software – Installation,Installation Type)

Send({ENTER})

WinWaitActive(Webroot Software – Installation,Free Webroot Ask Toolbar)

Send(!I)

Send(!N)

WinWaitActive(Webroot Software – Installation,Ready to Install)

Send({ENTER})

WinWaitActive(Webroot Software – Installation,Installation Complete)

Send(!N)
Send(!F)

Its pretty understandable and easy. The above code installs the application on my computer.

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