[HN Gopher] Exploring X11 windows and devices and emulating mous...
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       Exploring X11 windows and devices and emulating mouse movements and
       keystrokes
        
       Author : todsacerdoti
       Score  : 92 points
       Date   : 2022-02-23 07:41 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (relational-pipes.globalcode.info)
 (TXT) w3m dump (relational-pipes.globalcode.info)
        
       | vinceguidry wrote:
       | Does anyone have any resources for doing mousekey emulation
       | outside of xwindows, say, by simulating a uinput device? The xkb
       | settings get me partway there, but I want to use four keys
       | instead of having to use eight for diagonals.
        
       | sockpuppet69 wrote:
        
       | unnouinceput wrote:
       | Same in Windows. Every control is a window with its handle and
       | you can embed other apps inside
        
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         | ______-_-______ wrote:
         | And you can poke at any window in the system with WinSpy++, the
         | original DOM inspector from before devtools were cool
        
           | marcodiego wrote:
           | I remember an old win95 software called 'revelation' that
           | could textplain password edit controls. Would it still work
           | post winxp?
        
             | unnouinceput wrote:
             | Yes and no. That tool would simply unmask the text. If the
             | text is not there to begin with, then there is nothing to
             | unmask. So it depends on the programmer who creates the
             | text in there. For me, since this was an obvious security
             | hole, I always inherited base classes and created the real
             | text to be kept somewhere else in memory. Still doable to
             | be found with Cheat Engine for example, but harder by
             | simply hovering Spy++ over it.
        
       | funcDropShadow wrote:
       | Wow. Just after a cursory glance at the underlying relpipes
       | project, I must say: This looks exactly like something I've hoped
       | somebody what develop it for decades.
        
         | ktpsns wrote:
         | The website and tool is very nice. However, to be honest, there
         | are various attemps to beyond-ASCII pipes. One popular is the
         | MS Windows PowerShell, but there are also less known ones in
         | the Linux world (I cannot even name a single one out of heart
         | in the moment). Interestingly, passing JSON via pipes has got a
         | defacto standard/alternative for structured data passing.
        
           | badsectoracula wrote:
           | Well, the project _does_ mention that they 're not trying to
           | replace any existing approach but instead provide additional
           | functionality over the existing stuff. My understanding is
           | that they can grab the JSON, XML or whatever else other
           | projects do, use some existing tool on the parsed data and
           | then passing it forward to other tools as JSON, XML or
           | whatever. I think the diagram at the end of [0] shows it
           | well.
           | 
           | [0] https://relational-pipes.globalcode.info/v_0/index.xhtml
        
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