SOC 2009: Application Test Suite

[Scott Ritchie]

Austin English wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Vincent Povirk
> <madewokherd+8cd9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> From the looks of things, we could do just about everything in
>>> autohotkey with enough elbow grease. It would only take a small
>>> wrapper script to run it under wine, or, if someone wanted to later
>>> extend it, to windows.
> 
>> Your current script doesn't do anything that can't be done in autohotkey.
> 
> I know (aside from the initial wget for the wget.exe file...I don't
> see anything similar for AHK, unless we have that file already
> downloaded, which is easily doable).
> 
> I was more interested in a quick proof of concept. The flexibility of
> autohotkey allows for lots of different methods for doing such things,
> and a method that involves the majority of code being run under AHK
> itself (and therefore on wine AND windows) is very possible with
> careful planning, which is part of what makes this proposal so
> interesting.
> 

You don't need wget - just have autohotkey install the web browser, open 
a webpage, and then download the files by point and click ;)

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie