• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• METHODS
  • new
  • debug
  • list_windows
  • get_window
  • AutoItX methods
• ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
  • AUTOITX_DEBUG
• SEE ALSO
• AUTHOR
• COPYRIGHT

NAME

Win32::AutoItX - Automate the Windows GUI using AutoItX

SYNOPSIS

    use Win32::AutoItX;

    my $a = Win32::AutoItX->new;

    ### AutoItX native methods ###

    my $pid = $a->Run('calc.exe');

    my $clipboard_text = $a->ClipGet;
    $a->ClipPut("Win32::AutoItX rulez!");
    
    my $color = $a->PixelGetColor(42, 42);

    ### Perlish methods ###

    my $window = $a->get_window('Calculator');
    $window->wait;
    for my $control ($window->find_controls) {
        local $\ = "\n";
        print "Control $control";
        print "\thandle: ", $control->handle;
        print "\ttext: ", $control->text;
        print "\tx: ", $control->x, "\ty: ", $control->y;
        print "\twidth: ", $control->width, "\theight: ", $control->height;
    }

    my $button_2 = $window->find_controls('2', class => 'Button');
    my $button_3 = $window->find_controls('3', class => 'Button');
    my $button_plus = $window->find_controls('+', class => 'Button');
    my $button_eq = $window->find_controls('=', class => 'Button');
    my $result = $window->find_controls('0', class => 'Static');

    $button_2->click;
    $button_3->click;
    $button_plus->click;
    $button_3->click;
    $button_2->click;
    $button_eq->click;

    print "23 + 32 = ", $result->text, "\n";

DESCRIPTION

Win32::AutoItX helps to automate the Windows GUI using the AutoItX COM interface. To use this module you have to install AutoIt v3 (https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/) or register the AutoItX COM/ActiveX component.

On the first constructor ("new") invoke it tries to initialize the COM library. To avoid issues with the security context don't import Win32::OLE module in the same script using use.

METHODS

new

    $obj = Win32::AutoItX->new(%options)

creates a new instance of Win32::AutoItX object.

Available options:

debug

enables the debug mode (Win32::AutoItX will print additional information for debugging).

ole_warn

determines the behavior of the Win32::OLE module when an error happens. Please see "Warn" in Win32::OLE. Default is 3 (Carp::croak).

ole_cp

determines the codepage used by all translations between Perl strings and Unicode strings used by the OLE interface. Please see "CP" in Win32::OLE. Default is CP_UTF8.

debug

    $debug_is_enabled = $obj->debug
    $obj = $obj->debug($enable_debug)

if the argument is defined it enables or disables the debug mode and returns the object reference. Otherwise it returns the current state of debug mode.

list_windows

    $hash_ref = $obj->list_windows($win_title)
    $hash_ref = $obj->list_windows($win_title, $win_text)

returns a hash reference with $handler => $title elements. Optionally windows can be filtered by title and/or text.

get_window

    $window = $a->get_window($title)
    $window = $a->get_window($title, $text)

returns a Win32::AutoItX::Window object for the window with specified title and text (optionally).

AutoItX methods

This module also autoloads all AutoItX methods. For example:

    $obj->WinActivate($win_title) unless $obj->WinActive($win_title);

Please see AutoItX Help file for documenation of all available methods.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

AUTOITX_DEBUG

enables additional output to the STDOUT. Can be overwrited with debug option in the constructor ("new") or with method "debug".

SEE ALSO

Win32::AutoItX::Window

Win32::AutoItX::Control

AutoItX Help

https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/

Win32::OLE

AUTHOR

Mikhail Telnov <Mikhail.Telnov@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT

This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Mikhail Telnov.

This library is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

                    cpanm Win32::AutoItX
                

                    perl -MCPAN -e shell
                    install Win32::AutoItX