What did that gui app do?
Lets say I have this repetitve task I want to script. For example, every night I turn on an alarm clock app to wake me up. Then I set my screen saver for 1 min. My speakers are in the monitor, so I can't turn it off.
This seems like a typical repetitive task that would be good to script and stick in a cron file. But I don't actually know what those little gui buttons have done. So how do I find out? Now the truth is I can probably figure out some work around to accomplish this task. But the general question is one that I don't have an exact answer to. So I thought it would be good for beginner forum. How do you figure out how a gui application actually did what it did? It is not always easy. |
Hi there,
You could download the source code of the clock application (usually a *.tar.gz archive) and have a look at the program's functions and utilities being used. |
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Once you understand what happened from the command line, you will understand what happened when you pointed and clicked in the gui. |
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