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From: austin@spies.sf-bay.org (Glenn Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Automatic Control over Mac Software
Keywords: expect QuicKeys
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.000836.8973@spies.sf-bay.org>
Date: 4 Feb 91 00:08:36 GMT
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In article <3991@client2.DRETOR.UUCP> gee@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (Thomas Gee) writes:
>On Unix machines there is a wonderful little program called "expect".  It
>allows me to provide input to interactive programs, examine their responses
>to said input, and apply more input based on how the program responds.  
>
>So my question is: does there exist anything like this for the Mac?  Is there
>some wonderful, magical software that allows me to fake any keyboard and
>mouse input, and read any resulting dialog box, alert box, flashing icon in
>the upper corner, etc.?

Yes, it's called Tempo II Plus.  Works great for almost everything, AND has
the ability to loop, branch, repeat, etc.  It can do almost everything you
would normally do in front of the screen, only faster and automatically.
I have both QuicKeys and Tempo II+, and gave up on QuicKeys since it didn't
support "intelligent" macros.  I haven't played with QK 2.0 yet, however...

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