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GUI Tools and Processes
Controlling GUI Applications
Many useful tools that we would like to use in a workflow have graphical user interfaces (GUIs). If the application has been designed to let you use automation systems to leverage its capabilities in a workflow then we can take advantage of that with a script.
Applications designed around the X-Windows system on a Linux or other UNIX workstation may be relatively easy to access using additional software such as Expect, ExpecTk, and Tcl, as well as X-Windows automation mechanisms.
Mac OS X has AppleScript support for automating GUI applications and Windows Vista has PowerShell for the same kind of script-driven control.
There have always been third-party solutions, too. These haven’t always ...
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