Haskell and java.awt.Robot

Question

I'm interested in writing a program that takes control of keyboard and mouse in much the same way that one can with java.awt.Robot. I assume of course that there's no way to do this with standard libraries. Does anyone know of a good library I can connect to by means of FFI to achieve something like this?

Answer 1

I don't have any relevant experience, sorry. My first thought would be to look at other UI libraries, such as GTK,

• http://developer.gnome.org/gdk/stable/GdkDisplay.html#gdk-display-warp-pointer

It looks like this may be already exported to Haskell via gtk2hs. If you know how to use the C foreign function interface, the XTest extension library seems to have what you want. ( http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/libXtst/xtestlib.html ).