Mid-Summer Screencast

The screencast is up here [mp4] and here [avi].

The SVN repo has been updated to use the same code as the screencast (r77).

Accomplishments thus far:

• Masquerading as any Activity while retaining all functionality
• Hooks into PyGTK library to intercept GDK Events to catalog widgets
• Intelligent identification of widgets based on widget class to give each widget a unique identifier
• Manipulation of many types of widgets using generic commands like 'click' and 'type'
• Multithreaded execution routine prevents hang-ups (prior versions would stall once the calls to the GTK handler stopped due to inactivity)
• Custom scripting language with support for advanced string manipulation [will soon be replaced by native Python code]
• XML-RPC client/server interface allows the scripts to be stored on a central machine, while sugarbot may be run on any number of slaves.
• Per-command status reporting and graceful error handling
• Does not rely on any libraries or modules outside those already provided by Sugar and Python
• Automated testing provided via buildbot and python-nose.

Have fun!

Questions, comments, and rants are welcome and appreciated.