Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto

Hi--
I would like record and playback mouse movements and key presses for a demo of the software that I am developing using Swing. The gui consist of a main window with lots of internal frames. The Robot works well for playback, but I need a way to record the movements of the Robot. I almost got it working. I was capturing AWTEvents by hooking into the event queue; however, to capture mouse events properly, it needs to know absolute mouse coordinates. The MouseEvents only contain relative coordinates and I can't figure out a way to translate them properly. For instance, the event gives me the relative coordinates of a mouse press on a button, on a panel, in an internal frame, within the main window, etc. For the demo, I will of course keep the main window maximized and every position as reproducable as possible. Another thing I tried was to capture the AWTEvents entering the queue during recording and playback the events by reinserting them into the queue with the proper timing. That worked well for mouse events, but keyboard events were not directed to the correct components. They seemed to be received by the main frame only. How do people normally record for the robot? Please help,
- Mike

Hi Mike and all,
I need to implement macro functionality (Recording mouse and key events and replay them when necessary) in my GUI application. The GUI consist of a main JFrame/JDialog with lots of panels which are having lots of swing components like Jtextfields, Jbuttons and all.
I feel I could this by using Robot class. Is it the correct way ? Could you please give me some hints or sample code to do this functionality ?
Thanks a lot.
[email protected]

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There is nothing left to say but to ask the survey questions
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Of course, if I were a good mathematician I would pretend that I knew that all along and in a disgusted tone utter, "Do you take me for some kind of fool? Obviously I meant 'primitive' because it isn't true otherwise."
These days I am closer to fool than to a good mathematician.
I am very glad that you pointed this out. The problem I was working on required triples and I was about to limit my considerations to just the primitive ones when in fact a non-primitive one could do.
Domo arigato gozaimashita!

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4. Phone dies at 10% battery remaining.
5. SIM card keeps ejecting
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autohide_hide_timeout = 1.5
autohide_height = 6
strut_policy = follow_size
# Taskbar
taskbar_mode = multi_desktop
taskbar_padding = 5 2
taskbar_background_id = 5
taskbar_active_background_id = 6
taskbar_name = 1
taskbar_name_background_id = 0
taskbar_name_active_background_id = 0
taskbar_name_font = Crisp 12
taskbar_name_font_color = #ffffff 30
taskbar_name_active_font_color = #ffffff 50
# Tasks
urgent_nb_of_blink = 20
task_icon = 1
task_text = 0
task_centered = 1
task_maximum_size = 20 20
task_padding = 0 0
task_background_id = 3
task_active_background_id = 2
task_urgent_background_id = 4
task_iconified_background_id = 3
# Task Icons
task_icon_asb = 80 0 0
task_active_icon_asb = 100 0 0
task_urgent_icon_asb = 100 0 0
task_iconified_icon_asb = 80 0 0
# Fonts
task_font = BankGothic Md BT 10
task_font_color = #696969 60
task_active_font_color = #696969 100
task_urgent_font_color = #696969 100
task_iconified_font_color = #696969 60
font_shadow = 0
# Launcher
launcher_icon_theme = elementary
launcher_padding = 2 2
launcher_background_id = 1
launcher_icon_size = 20
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# if you have an XSETTINGS manager running (like xfsettingsd), tint2 will follow your current theme.
#launcher_icon_theme = AwOkenWhite
# Each launcher_item_app must be a full path to a .desktop file
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop
launcher_item_app = /usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop
# Clock
time1_timezone = :/usr/share/zoneinfo/dir/Canada/Eastern
time1_format = %I:%M %p
time1_font = BankGothic Md BT 9
#time2_format = %A, %B %d
#time2_font = Ubuntu-L 7
clock_font_color = #ffffff 80
clock_padding = 5 0
clock_background_id = 5
clock_lclick_command = gsimplecal
#lock_rclick_command =
# System Tray
systray = 1
systray_padding = 2
systray_sort = right2left
systray_background_id = 5
systray_icon_size = 20
systray_icon_asb = 100 0 0
# Tooltips
tooltip = 0
tooltip_padding = 2 2
tooltip_show_timeout = 0.0
tooltip_hide_timeout = 0.0
tooltip_background_id = 7
tooltip_font_color = #ff0000 100
tooltip_font = Roboto-Thin normal 9.0
# Mouse
mouse_middle = none
mouse_right = toggle
mouse_scroll_up = toggle
mouse_scroll_down = iconify
# Battery
battery = 1
battery_hide = never
battery_low_status = 10
battery_low_cmd = notify-send "battery low"
bat1_font = sans 8
bat2_font = sans 6
battery_font_color = #ffffff 80
battery_padding = 5 0
battery_background_id = 5
# End of config
Last edited by jolejo07 (2013-07-05 01:39:25)

I've try but can't get it working ether, i've download from Aur but when i'm trying to use the PKGBUILD with makepkg
it telling me
==> ERROR: Cannot find the fakeroot binary required for building as non-root user.
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Last edited by jolejo07 (2013-07-05 01:45:21)

Create custom dictionary viewer

Hello there!
I've got a digital version of a very old but very good German-Latin dictionary (maybe German users know Digitale Bibliothek), however the GUI which I have to wrap in wine is absolutely not KISS and it doesn't fit into my workflow in a tiling wm. I just discovered that I can export the whole dictionary into different formats notably XHTML, which should make it possible to create a more user friendly interface.
The situation is as follows:
A file which contains all the German and latin lemmata alphabetically sorted (Latin and German mixed); sample:
abhinc#A139
abhold#C60768
abholen#C60769
Abholen#D60769
abholzen#C60770
abhorchen#C60771
abhorreo#A140
abhorresco#A142
abhorride#A143
A file which contains all the data; sample:
<a id="p0000139" />ab-hinc, Adv. I) räumlich = von hier, aufer abhinc lacrimas, Lucr. 3, 953 (954): toto abhinc orbe, Apul. flor. 16. – II) in der Zeit: 1) von der gegenwärtigen Zeit rückwärts gerechnet, a) absol. = von jetzt an, dies abhinc quintus an sextus est, cum etc., Apul.: centesimo usque abhinc saeculo, Fronto: anno abhinc tertio, Gell. – b) mit Acc. = seit nun, vor, abhinc annos sedecim, Caes.: abhinc annos prope viginti, Cic.: abhinc triennium, Cic., Komik. u. Apul. – c) mit Abl. = vor, vor ungefähr, qui abhinc sexaginta annis occisus foret, Plaut.: comitiis iam abhinc diebus triginta factis, Cic. Vgl. (über no. a u. b) Madvig Bemerkgg. S. 65 f. Lorenz zu Plaut. most. 479. – 2) selten von der gegenwärtigen Zeit vorwärts gerechnet, absol. = von jetzt an, von hier od. da ab, Pallad. 4, 13, 9. Symm. ep. 4, 59: verb. inde abhinc, Pacuv. 21.
<div class="db5PageBreak"> </div>
 
<a id="p0000140" />ab-horreo, uī, ēre, I) vor etwas zurückschaudern, etwas verabscheuen, gegen etwas eine starke Abneigung haben, von etwas aus Abscheu oder Abneigung fernbleiben, -nichts wissen wollen, jmdm. od. einer Sache abhold sein, gegen jmd. od. etwas eingenommen sein, m. ab u. Abl., ab hac domo, Titin.: a pace, Caes.: ab re uxoria, Ter.: a ducenda uxore, Cic.: a Berenice, Tac.: mit bl. Abl. (s. Nipperd. zu Tac. ann. 14, 21), tanto facinore procul animo, Curt.: non abh. spectaculorum oblectamentis, Tac. – nachaug. m. Acc., cadaverum tabem, Suet.: pumilos, Suet.: exemplum huius modi, Dict.: m. Infinit., Augustin. serm. 184, 3. Porphyr. Hor. carm. 1, 1, 16. – absol., sin plane abhorrebit et absurdus erit, sollte er aber dazu gar keine Neigung u. Fähigkeit haben, Cic. de or. 2, 85: omnes aspernabantur, omnes abhorrebant, Cic. Clu. 41: ut aut cupiant (sc. reo) aut abhorreant, Cic. de or. 2, 185: postquam abhorrere eos videt, Auct. b. Afr. 73, 5. – II) übtr., gleichs. von Natur mit etwas nicht im Einklang-, im Widerspruch stehen, unverträglich-, ihm zuwider sein, nicht zusagen, zuwiderlaufen, zu etwas nicht passen, von etw. abweichen, von etw. verschieden-, fern-, ihm fremd sein, ab oculorum auriumque approbatione, den Augen und Ohren anstößig sein, Cic.: oratio abhorret a persona hominis gravissimi, Cic.: abh. a fide, unglaublich sein, Liv.: consilium abhorret a tuo scelere, Cic.: spes ab effectu haud abhorrens, Hoffnung der Ausführbarkeit, Liv.: temeritas tanta, ut non procul abhorreat ab insania, Cic.: longe ab ista suspicione abhorrere debet, Cic.: a quo (vitae statu) mea longissime ratio voluntasque abhorret, Cic.: orationes abhorrent inter se, widersprechen einander, Liv.: m. bl. Abl. (s. Nipperd. zu Tac. ann. 14, 21), abhorrens peregrinis auribus carmen, Curt.: neque abhorret vero, Tac.: nec abhorrebat moribus uxor, Flor.: u.m. bl. Dat., huic tam pacatae profectioni abhorrens mos, Liv.: nec abhorret a veritate m. folg. Acc. u. Infin., Suet. Cal. 12, 3. – Dah. abhorrens, unpassend, unstatthaft, carmen nunc abhorrens, Liv.: vestrae istae absurdae atque abhorrentes lacrimae, Liv. – ☞ Abl. abhorrenti, Gell. 10, 12, 10.
<div class="db5PageBreak"> </div>
 
<a id="p0000142" />ab-horrēsco, ere, einen Abscheu bekommen, Eccl. u. Gloss.
<div class="db5PageBreak"> </div>
Note how the id of the anchor tags correspond to the lemmata (the uppercase letter after the # may be ignored, it indicates the language or section of the lemma in the original binary file).
In a quick-n-dirty approach I hacked a bash script (I am a bloody beginner) making use of dmenu and lynx:
#!/bin/bash
# display dmenu with all the lemmata, strip the id's (lemmatas in the file "data/lemmata")
lemma="$(cat data/lemmata | sed -e 's/#[A-Z][0-9]*$//g' | dmenu)"
# search for the selected lemmata to get the whole string with the id
str="$(grep "^${lemma}[ .0-9()]*#[A-Z][0-9]*$" "data/lemmata")"
id="${str#*\#[A-Z]}"
# finally take the definition from the xml and pipe output to lynx
awk "/<a id=\"p0*${id}\" \/>/,/<div class=\"db5PageBreak\">/{if (!/<div class=\"db5PageBreak\">/)print}" < data/dictionary.xml | lynx -stdin
The script fires up dmenu which displays all the lemmata with all the identifiers (#<number>) stripped, then it searches the selected lemma in the lemmata file again to find the identifier and finally then the corresponding paragraph(s) is (are) taken and piped to lynx. (Using the tee program I could bind the script to a keybinding and open/close a terminal window displaying lynx)
However this is not robust - there are identical Latin and German lemmata:
ab#B43
ab#C60601
So the approach above must fail because I don't pipe the identifiers to dmenu. I could alter the list which gets piped to dmenu to
ab [de]
ab [lat]
and could then get back to the identifier...
But the longterm goal would be a more suitable custom console interface: I am thinking of
a terminal window which is divided into two parts, the left showing the lemmata, the right showing the definition of the lemma currently selected (think of something like a console music player, e.g. moc)
possibility of an on the fly dmenu-like search of the lemmata while typing
for the viewer part: automatical wrapping of the lines, colored text for and tags, stripping of the HTML, scrolling (a lemma definition/translation may be very long) and display of UTF-8
I tend to hack this in C as I lack the knowledge of any other language (as an emacs user I also thought of using emacs and displaying the definitions in w3m but I don't know any lisp other then setting variables...).
So my questions are:
Is this doable? If yes, which libraries should I consider? (ncurses, libhtml....)
Does anyone know a program which does something similar?
So far this would be my first program which makes use of menues, so any suggestions are very welcome! Any other ideas how to access lemmata and their definitions in a simple manner?
Last edited by ball (2013-06-19 09:44:33)

As you may have seen from the lack of replies, this is a bit hard to advise on. Things that occur to me:
Rather than a library, you could use regular expressions for parsing, as you already did with awk. They are available in C via POSIX functions, see the regex (3) manual page.
If all input you need is a decision between a small number of duplicate words, curses seems overkill. Why not print all of them? If you want more interaction, using curses is probably the right thing.
Personally I would probably use Perl for this task, which is the most productive programming language I know and is especially suited for text processing. Seeing the rather advanced shell script you wrote (definitely more than beginner level), you may like it, as it was inspired by the shell scripts using sed, awk and the like.

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The true cost of a product is not only in it's subscription based fee, but also includes the time it takes to keep up with product changes, additional training, the cost of delivery (cable connections/provider). So far since the first of the year I have logged over 100 hours to either 'fix something that quit working with no notice', time spent re-reading documentation seeking a solution, time spent perusing the forums for a solutions, or posting a question, time spent in additional training/books, etc."
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Yet, I cannot believe I am the only person having these issues, otherwise the forums wouldn't be so full.
I did try limiting the permissions to not allow Adobe to update the software automatically, however, the permissions I wrote, were in fact re-written by adobe's cloud synchronization, Which I did find disturbing on a few levels. None of which I'll go into, but it needed to be mentioned that *yes, I tried that too*.
*I ended up re-configuring my machine AGAIN* and deleting CS6 altogether, The performance change after I deleted CS6, was/is the difference and why I am still with my cloud membership.
**I have reconfigured my machine numerous times, to facilitate the cloud, I am on a PC, Adobe and Microsoft Development Environments do not play well together, I ended up removing them altogether and creating a vm for them and basically all my development work. And have twice since reconfigured it for various reasons.

Hi
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If you are not using an Edge font or a downloadable font do not forget to set the last three fonts in your font stack to -
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Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto

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