[request] Sikuli Automation fails for lock machine --- ideas how to do that are welcome

[Pankaj Sukale]

Steps to reproduce.
1.Create a sikuli script in sikuli ide.
2.Try to run the script when machine is unlock.
3.It will work fine.
4.Now try to execute same script when machine is lock.

Expected:-Script should run.
Actual:-Script fails with following error
[log] App.open C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe(3712)
[log] App.focus Firefox(0) #0
[error] App.focus failed: Firefox not found

Machine details:-
Op system:-Win 7
Proccessor:-I5
Sikuli details

Regards,
Pankaj Sukale
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[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

Sikuli scripts cannot be run on locked screens.

Sikuli can only act on what a user sees on the screen. On a locked screen you see nothing and hence Sikuli cannot either.

[Pankaj Sukale (pankajsukale)]

Hi,

  Thanks for your reply.
I want to make you aware of one thing that automation is done for overnight or no manual intervention executions. In software industry automation executions are done with locked screen only. I just want to ask, are you guys looking forward to overcome this drawback?

 Regards,
Pankaj Sukale
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[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

Might be, that "In software industry automation executions are done with locked screen only", but again: the currently used approach in Sikuli (using Java Robot) does only allow to access the real screen (which is what you see when looking at the monitor).
It does not work on headless machines either.

The only available workaround is to run the script in a virtual machine, that simulates real screen, keyboard and mouse while the real screen might not show the VM window (VM window minimized or screen locked). The convenience options to automatically catch the mouse must be switched off.

Until someone has a good idea how to overcome that generally, things will not change in Sikuli.

[Pankaj Sukale (pankajsukale)]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. Hopping that you guys will be able to overcome this issue in future.
I personally fill that it's a good tool.

Regards,
Pankaj Sukale

[Naresh (naresh-shenishetty)]

The given work around i.e running script on VM also not working. The result is same when the screen is locked script test cases are failing and test cases are passed when screen is not locked.

Can any body please help here on work around.

[Selin (selingungor01)]

Is there any future implemented for this problem?

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

@Selin
the future of this problem (builtin "feature" ;-) will persist in the future: A visual automation using Java Robot class can only run on unlocked screens.

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

@Selin
this problem (builtin "feature" ;-) will persist in the future: A visual automation using Java Robot class can only run on unlocked screens.