NAME
Win32::ActAcc 1.1 - Active Accessibility client in Perl
SYNOPSIS
Win32::ActAcc enables Perl scripts to examine the GUI and monitor
WinEvents, as screen readers do.
In this Perl extension, you'll find familiar Active Accessibility
functions, along with novelties such as iterators to accommodate
laziness and impatience.
For documentation (on the Perl extension, not Active Accessibility
itself), run "perldoc Win32::ActAcc" or view ActAcc.html after
installation.
For clicking and typing and such, you may use Win32::GuiTest to
complement the view of the GUI you get from Active Accessibility.
INSTALLATION
Building the extension from source code requires Visual C++ 6.0 SP 4 or
later, and the "Platform SDK" of July 2000 or later. (The C++ compiler
in the ".NET Framework 1.0" SDK will do, but it creates a dependency on
a .NET DLL that not everyone has.) The "nmake test" requires
English-language Windows 2000 or XP.
Reboot first, to unload any residual inproc WinEvent handlers from a
prior version of Win32::ActAcc.
perl Makefile.PL
nmake
nmake test
nmake install
"nmake test" depends on very little outside of Win32::ActAcc itself, and
therefore tests very few features.
A more in-depth test, "eg\playpen.pl", uses the small C# Windows Forms
app in the "eg\playpen" directory to exercise more features. Even this
simple app has been observed to present itself differently to Active
Accessibility on computers running different versions of Windows, so
your mileage may vary.
CHANGES from version 1.0
You can import specific symbols, or get all of them like this:
use Win32::ActAcc qw(:all);
"dig" allows paths to omit "client" only by request:
$Win32::ActAcc::IMPLICIT_CLIENT = 1; # deprecated
The "Start Menu" module is history. Each revision of Windows outsmarted
it.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2000-2004, Phill Wolf.
[email protected]
