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Very cool, but would have major limitations outside of the just making a "personal script" or, at best, a script for a heavily locked-down enterprise/academic s
by thorax 17y ago
Very cool, but would have major limitations outside of the just making a "personal script" or, at best, a script for a heavily locked-down enterprise/academic setup.
Because it uses literal images, it seems like any change in OS theme, OS version, app version, localization (e.g. text or control shape), or colors (e.g. high contrast mode) would break the scripts.
It'd be neat to use for GUI automation during software development except for the fact that the GUI changes, the button wordings are tweaked, etc.
In all of these cases, back-end or OS GUI automation is probably better, but if you have an unchanging environment or want a quick on-the-fly test, the screenshot approach is novel and probably a bit cooler.