discogui

About

discogui discovers GUI elements

Links:

• home: https://github.com/ponty/discogui
• documentation: http://discogui.readthedocs.org
• PYPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/discogui

Features:

• 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

Known problems:

• Python 3 is not supported

Possible applications:

• GUI unit-testing
• automatic GUI control

Basic usage

from discogui.buttons import discover_buttons
from easyprocess import EasyProcess
from pyvirtualdisplay import Display
with Display():
    with EasyProcess('zenity --question') as p:
        p.sleep(1)
        buttons = discover_buttons()
print buttons

Installation

General

• install Xvfb and Xephyr

• install Xlib

• install scrot

• install PIL

• install xdotool

• install pip

• install latest PyMouse and the program:

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

Ubuntu 14.04

sudo apt-get install python-pip xvfb python-xlib scrot python-pil xdotool
sudo pip install https://github.com/pepijndevos/PyMouse/zipball/master
sudo pip install discogui

Uninstall

# as root
pip uninstall discogui

API

discogui.hover

discogui.taborder

discogui.buttons