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Simulate button mouse click on Java GUI

All ideas welcome on this one!

I'm looking for a way to simulate a button mouse click on Java GUI (Applet or Application). The tricky thing to this problem is that the Java source code of the GUI I'm trying to click on is not available.

I'm willing to try *any* ideas you have.

Thanks community!

Carlos
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Can you elaborate please on what you want to do?  what do you mean by simulate mouse button click !

cheers

pjcrooks2000
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sure. Let me elaborate. I want to create program 'A'  (in whatever language with whatever technology) that will automatically click a button inside a third party program written in Java just as if you were physically clicking the button with your mouse.

Hopefully this clarifies what I'm looking for. :)
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That's an idea! However, I would prefer to not depend on a third party commercial app. What I am looking for is precisely how apps such as macro express get the job done.

Anyone else?
Actually there are tons of Macro programs around some of them may be free you could always google to see if there a free one!  But those two I have used in the past, in particular I suggested it to a friend Ooooh about three years ago when he set his business up.  I found he was doing a lot of mundane tasks and writing out lines and lines of text for reports he was making.  The reports very often needed the text to be exacltly the same as if it were to explain the state of something he was working on.  e.g. I checked the device and I found that the battery had not been removed blah blah blah so we set the hot keys up for him.

He streamlined his business so much that he has expanded to 8 times the amount of manpower all using the same software and all with automated tasks that they do.  He managed to cut down the time it took for doing these report from 1 hour to under 1/2 an hour with the use of the software.

I hope it meets with your approval :)

cheers

pjcrooks2000
Thanks for accepting cvillegas

Please provide me and some others with some feedback on your final solutions  cheers sport!

pjcrooks2000