I'm in charge of taking an Excel VBA app and turning it into a stand alone piece of software. The main point of the functionality is to be able to record macros and play them back, think Website testing, mass SAP entries, anything a macro would be good for. I am not looking to re-invent the wheel, but I won't have the ability to install 3rd party macro recorders either. Which libraries or toolkits would you recommend I look at before getting started? Someone has recommended AutoHotkey to me, but as far as I can tell, it is standalone and doesn't exactly work inside of an application.
A:
You might be interested in looking at QAliber Test Builder:
http://www.qaliber.net/testbuilder.php
It's open source, by the way.
code4life
2010-10-12 19:20:30
That's for test building, he is looking for macro stuff. It needs to do more than just testing.
Tony Abrams
2010-10-12 19:29:50
True, it doesn't exactly record macros like Excel does, however, you can record keystrokes and mouse clicks in QAliber, albeit probably not as conveniently as Excel does.
code4life
2010-10-12 19:37:24
A:
I found a sample Global Mouse and Keyboard library here, that in my initial testing seems to be compatible with at least .NET 3.5 (and probably others). The demo applications show the proper use of tracking events and also contains a demo macro recorder. So far, this is the option that I'm pursuing, but if anyone else knows of better toolkits/libraries let me know!
manyxcxi
2010-10-14 20:25:55