discogui 0.0.0

GUI discovery

discogui discovers GUI elements

• 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

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

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

Possible applications:

• GUI unit-testing

• automatic GUI control

Basic usage

from discogui.buttons import discover_buttons
from easyprocess import EasyProcess
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
buttons = Display().wrap(
            EasyProcess('zenity --question').wrap(
                discover_buttons, delay=1))
print buttons()

Installation

General

• install Xvfb and Xephyr

• install Xlib

• install scrot

• install PIL

• install xdotool

• install setuptools

• install latest PyMouse and the program:

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

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
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 easy_install https://github.com/pepijndevos/PyMouse/zipball/master

sudo easy_install discogui

Uninstall

# as root
pip uninstall discogui