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The script was really flaky at first, in part because I was running on a very old spare computer that was slow to draw the graphs resulting in “broken” screenshots. Furthermore, it seems the theming and styling of Windows is important too, as later versions of Windows may highlight boxes on hover-over, resulting in failed exact-matches for screen snippets.
wow its almost like blindly dragging hte mouse around and taking screenshots is not useful for any serious automation if only Terminal Nerds realized GUIs can be automated just fine using accessibility APIs and actually did the tooling for it instead of yelling loudly about the terminal being more better -
goughlui.com/2026/03/07/tested-how-many-times-can-a-dvd±rw-be-rewritten-part-2-methodology-results/
The script was really flaky at first, in part because I was running on a very old spare computer that was slow to draw the graphs resulting in “broken” screenshots. Furthermore, it seems the theming and styling of Windows is important too, as later versions of Windows may highlight boxes on hover-over, resulting in failed exact-matches for screen snippets.
wow its almost like blindly dragging hte mouse around and taking screenshots is not useful for any serious automation if only Terminal Nerds realized GUIs can be automated just fine using accessibility APIs and actually did the tooling for it instead of yelling loudly about the terminal being more betterthat aside the article is really interesting by itself i just found a reason to complain about a pet peeve of mine -
goughlui.com/2026/03/07/tested-how-many-times-can-a-dvd±rw-be-rewritten-part-2-methodology-results/
The script was really flaky at first, in part because I was running on a very old spare computer that was slow to draw the graphs resulting in “broken” screenshots. Furthermore, it seems the theming and styling of Windows is important too, as later versions of Windows may highlight boxes on hover-over, resulting in failed exact-matches for screen snippets.
wow its almost like blindly dragging hte mouse around and taking screenshots is not useful for any serious automation if only Terminal Nerds realized GUIs can be automated just fine using accessibility APIs and actually did the tooling for it instead of yelling loudly about the terminal being more better@kopper ive never really thought about that thats pretty smart. are there libraries and stuff to do that?
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@kopper ive never really thought about that thats pretty smart. are there libraries and stuff to do that?
@chfour not really, that's the point. there isn't that much.
the accessibility apis are out there, but nothing that abstracts them into 'find(button, name="Burn").click()'. the closest we have are, like, AutoInput on Android (excellent tool anyone who wants to look into this should try, it's paid but i think it has a free trial available) and... AppleScript? AutoHotkey? -
goughlui.com/2026/03/07/tested-how-many-times-can-a-dvd±rw-be-rewritten-part-2-methodology-results/
The script was really flaky at first, in part because I was running on a very old spare computer that was slow to draw the graphs resulting in “broken” screenshots. Furthermore, it seems the theming and styling of Windows is important too, as later versions of Windows may highlight boxes on hover-over, resulting in failed exact-matches for screen snippets.
wow its almost like blindly dragging hte mouse around and taking screenshots is not useful for any serious automation if only Terminal Nerds realized GUIs can be automated just fine using accessibility APIs and actually did the tooling for it instead of yelling loudly about the terminal being more better@kopper
isn't automation and accessibility one of the big reasons people stick with X11?
(my only dog in the Linux graphics fight is that the Wayland version of KDE Plasma runs remarkably worse than the X11 one, on my Intel HD Graphics laptops) -
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