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From: "Steve" <nospam_steved94@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: [ANN] ada-autoit updated to work with AUtoIt v3.2.12
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"Per Sandberg" <per.sandberg@bredband.net> wrote in message 
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> ada-autoit is a medium thick Ada-binding to the scripting tool Auto It.
>
> Note this tool is very win32 specific.
>
> For more info see:
>  http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/index.shtml
> and:
>  http://sourceforge.net/projects/ada-autoit/

I recently tried using autoit and found it interesting.  Unfortunately it 
wasn't able to do everything I wanted to do with out a lot of extra work, or 
at least learning a new programming language (the special dialect of basic 
used by autoit).  I did a little research to see if there was an easier way 
and found the Microsoft UI Automation Library.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163288.aspx

For my app I wound up using the c# and the.net framework which contains an 
automation framework (system.windows.automation).  If I were developing the 
same app in Ada I would either use A# or create a binding to the Microsoft 
UI Automation Library using GnatCOM.

Regards,
Steve