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Comment It certainly has its on niche (Score 1) 154

by gugod on Friday January 22, 2010 @11:37AM (#30859896) Attached to: MIT Offers Picture-Centric Programming To the Masses With Sikuli

I tried playing it and found it really impressive. The implementation is still beta-ish, but good enough to give it a try.

The first thing I make it do for me, is to launch my VNC viewer on my mac laptop, connect to my local head-less windows 7 machine, and click the iTunes play button to play some music there. It just worked (amazingly), and I found it to be a pretty good use case for a tool like this. A task like that cannot be easily automated. At least, it has not be the case with a tool that you just start trying for 5 minutes.

I can imagine that, if the image pattern matching can be extended to do recognition, such as face recognition / text OCR, and passed the recognized info back, or it adds webcam as its input device (instead of keyboard / mouse IO) it'll be overwhelming.

Besides, it really is an inspiring way of coding.

MIT Offers Picture-Centric Programming To the Masses With Sikuli 154

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 21, 2010 @05:21PM from the mind's-eye dept.

coondoggie writes "Computer users with rudimentary skills will be able to program via screen shots rather than lines of code with a new graphical scripting language called Sikuli that was devised at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With a basic understanding of Python, people can write programs that incorporate screen shots of graphical user interface (GUI) elements to automate computer work. One example given by the authors of a paper about Sikuli is a script that notifies a person when his bus is rounding the corner so he can leave in time to catch it." Here's a video demo of the technology, and a paper explaining the concept (PDF).

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