Windows Capabilitys of Turing

Danjen · **Posted:** Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:40 pm

Can Turing only output to it's own windows, or can it write text to another application. Say I wanted it to select my Netscape and type something... is it able to do that?
And another thing, can it output a mouse click? Say, make windows think I clicked the mouse at position (x,y) when I just gave Turing the locations without clicking?

Cervantes · **Posted:** Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:14 pm

Turing doesn't have access to the Windows API, which lets you do things like move the mouse around and other stuff. You might be able to do the netscape thing if you can run netscape from the command line and give it an argument that will do something. I doubt that it is done this way. The best you could do is open up a new netscape browser and point it at the URL you desire. If you can figure out how to do this with the command line (probably just run the netscape program with the URL as the first argument) you can then use Sys.Exec to execute the command.

Danjen · **Posted:** Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:38 pm

Well, not to endorse cheating at all, but I was just wondering since I wanted to make a macro program for a certain MMORPG. Rolling Eyes

So... which programming languages have access to the Windows API, and which of them work for Windows 98? Razz

Tony · **Posted:** Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:54 pm

Depending on how the game is build, you might be better off building your own browser, and just have that send out the requests. You could even do that in Turing with the Net module, but I don't remember if it supports POST requests. Just about every other language is good for that. curl/libcurl are popular tools for that.

If you actually have to make the clicks (lets say for Flash or Java games), then I guess VB6 would have WinAPI access for Windows 98. The use of that operating system is beyond me at the moment though.

Danjen · **Posted:** Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:22 pm

Arg, Microsoft's website is a veritible loop of run arounds and endless links. I really cannot find a link to either VB6 or C++ that runs on Windows 98 (don't worry, I'm upgrading to Vista soon). All I can find are stupid things for Windows 2000+, and they all are like 400mb big! (I have 56k dialup.)

Seriously, can I get a link for the right place? Razz

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rdrake · **Posted:** Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:31 pm

VB6 is not free and you won't find an ancient VC++ 6.0 compiler out there either for free (legally).

Danjen · **Posted:** Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:39 pm

Hmm that sucks, Microsoft is laaaame.
But thanks anyways. Smile

zylum · **Posted:** Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:30 pm

may i suggest autoit? its a scripting language to automate things. many d2 bots use this scripting language.

Danjen · **Posted:** Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:28 pm

Just based on the description alone, this is exactly what I need.
Hmm... I always thought bots were made by lonely lil' German young'uns. Surprised

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