Make your program USE a gui

Question

I\'d like to write a program able to \"use\" other programs by taking control of the mouse/keyboard and being able to \"see\" what\'s on the screen.

I used AutoIt to

Answer 1

AutoIt is completely capable of doing everything you mentioned. When I'm wanting to do some automation but use the features of Python, I find it easiest to use AutoItX which is a DLL/COM control.

Taken from this answer of mine:

import win32com.client
oAutoItX = win32com.client.Dispatch( "AutoItX3.Control" )

oAutoItX.Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2) #Match text anywhere in a window title

width = oAutoItX.WinGetClientSizeWidth("Firefox")
height = oAutoItX.WinGetClientSizeHeight("Firefox")

print width, height