[check] App.open should support command line options on Windows

[Bulkan]

Environement
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Windows 7
Sikuli-X-1.0rc1-win32
JAVA_HOME = C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6

Trying to do the following does not work, Firefox does not start up.

App.open(r"firefox -profile C:\testing\FF\SikuliUser")

Looking at the code (Win32Util.cc) it seems like there is some quoting issues when calling CreateProcess

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682425(v=vs.85).aspx

[Bulkan (bulkan)]

I can't even start firefox with a URL passed in i.e

App.open("firefox http://localhost:8080")

So I need to add steps to click on URL bar and type in the URL

[RaiMan (raimund-hocke)]

As stated above: this is not possible yet! only path to a program or part of the window title for open windows is possible.

look: http://sikuli.org/docx/globals.html#controlling-applications-and-their-windows

how to start applications on Windows.

to get FF to open a web page tis is the easiest way:

App.focus("Firefox")
type('l', KEY_CTRL) # goes to address field and selects content
paste("http://localhost:8080/")
type(Key.ENTER)

[Tom Hallett (tomhallett)]

Hi, sorry to bump this old thread.

This issue was marked "Fix Committed" and "Fix Released" for x1.0-rc3, but I'm unclear how it was fixed. What is the recommended usage?

Mac OS X: 10.6.7
Sikuli: X-1.0rc3 (r930)
Firefox: 19.0.2

The following works: App.open("Firefox")
But this doesn't (which is what Bulkan recommended he'd like todo): App.open("Firefox http://cnn.com")

The error I get is:

[log] App.open Firefox http://cnn.com(0)
[log] openApp: "Firefox http://cnn.com"
[error] App.open failed: Firefox http://cnn.com not found

Does "issue fixed" mean the correct way todo this task is App.focus("Firefox"), type("l", KEY_CTRL), paste("http://cnn.com"), etc...? Or is there a way to open an app with parameters and it's just not documented?

Thanks a lot! I'm really enjoying sikuli!
Tom

[Tom Hallett (tomhallett)]

RaiMan,

Thanks for reopening this and working on it! I'm working on an open source rubygem for sikuli which makes integrating sikuli in a ruby project a breeze! This fix will really help me open browser in a clean state and with advanced command line arguments.

Thanks again,
Tom
github.com/tommyh