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> I can't see any options around automating selection/clicking of dialogue box buttons?

I can only give you some technical details for ahk_x11 here. It would be ControlClick I think, here [1] is the Windows docs for it. Not present on ahk_x11 right now, I plainly don't know if it is possible yet [2]. If it is, I definitely want to have it. Other than that, I can only think of clicking on fixed coordinates, such as `MouseClick, left, 200, 300`. I haven't done `CoordMode` yet which would be rather important for that, out of sheer prioritization. For a generic solution, there's also ImageSearch [3] for more recent Windows AHK versions which I'd like to have at some point too. Some OCR command would be cool as well.

This will all take a while though, if nobody else joins in.

Thanks for your viewpoints though, I agree with the sibling comment that these insights are valuable.

[1] https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/ControlClick.htm [2] https://github.com/phil294/AHK_X11/issues/3 [3] https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/ImageSearch.htm



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